I READ with interest Information Minister Datuk Zainuddin Maidin’s suggestions about the role of RTM in the promotion of unity among Malaysians in “More multi-racial face for RTM2” (The Star, Dec 25).
While Zainuddin’s point on the creation of more multi-ethnic programmes is well taken, my point is that public television should respond to a changing Malaysian audience who seem to have become more ethnic (Malay, Chinese, Indian) more local and territorial (Sabahan, Kelantanese, Johorean, Hakka, Cantonese, Tamil, Malayalee etc), yet more hybrid and simultaneously more global than imaginable.
