Thursday, March 25, 2021

Untenable, inflexible, intolerent and unforgiving

With 53 years of television work, during seven decades, thousands of programmes, 3,500 million viewers, Hannu Karpo (born 1932) was probably the most influential reporter in Finnish TV. He was the spokesman of the common man who were mistreated by the bureaucrats. The purpose of his programmes was to uncover all kind of injustices. Hence people trusted him more than the Chancellor of Justice. He is an iconic figure. A phenomenon.

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