This phenomenon may be an inclination of Berbicians mentality

Jul 26, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Live call-in programmes on Berbice TV stations have become more and more embarrassing in the recent months.

There has been no other time in previous years whereby persons who call in to these programmes exhibit such immoral, rude and disgusting behaviours towards the hosts, a given panel (if there is any) and the viewers themselves.

I believe it’s time these stations subscribe to call display and call out the names and phone numbers of these individuals and charge those who are slanderous and extremely abusive.

Almost 60 percent of callers on these live call-in programmes, I believe, are mischievous, ignorant and definitely give Berbicians a bad name. Let me explain what I am rambling about.

First of all, it has been made known time and time again to viewers that they must turn the volume of their television sets down before calling in to the programme.

Yet there are calls whereby there is a loud, irritating, nasty, screechy feedback that hurts the ear and not an effort will be made to turn the volume down.

Some callers call in and scream on top of their voices on live television. They are quickly disconnected.
Some utter profanity and other vulgar jargons on air. They, too, are quickly disconnected.

Recently there was a caller who called in to a programme dealing with Berbice Exposition. Even though a campaign is ongoing to promote this event, even whilst this live call-in programme was going on, this caller, clearly driven by mischief, asked, “Wha is Berbice Expo?”

They then hung up. Another one called and said, to the host, “When you going go off the air and show the damn movie?”

On numerous occasions these live call-in programmes stray away from the originally intended topic and the programme becomes all about these messed up callers who wreak havoc on the airwaves. Now we have the entire panel discussing the callers instead of the topic that they were there to discuss.

Can you imagine the likes of Wolf Blitzer, Regis Philbin or Oprah Winfrey’s cell phone ringing off during their shows?

Do you think they might answer it while the cameras are still focused on them? That is a current feature on some live call-in programmes on a certain TV station.

In the middle of serious discussions we have moderators’ cellular phones ringing, and they answer them too.

What an impressive image this must give outsiders about Berbice. I cannot comment on what the situation is like in Georgetown or elsewhere but it is a very serious phenomenon in the making—one that seems to be catching on like wild-fire.

We are seeing more and more instances of these unfortunate occurrences on Berbician live TV call-in programmes.

Many out there might not see eye to eye with me on what I am about to say but the situation described above may be an inclination to where the mentality of some Berbicians lie.
Leon Jameson Suseran

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