Lawmaker Jose Pereira Coutinho yesterday questioned government-owned broadcaster TDM’s neutrality because the station appeared to be helping the Macau Jiangmen Communal Society promote itself in the run-up to next year’s legislate elections.
Coutinho made the claim in a press conference at the headquarters of the Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM). The press conference was mainly about the work of the association’s two lawmakers – Coutinho and Leong Veng Chai – in the legislature’s 2016/17 session, which ended on Monday.
A TDM television programme, loosely translated as “Macau People From Five Counties”, is a 10-part series sponsored by the Macau Jiangmen Communal Society, which is headed by lawmaker-cum-building contractor Mak Soi Kun. The series, which claims to be a documentary is about the lives of Mak and others in Macau and their relations with the mainland.
