Flashback to the fall of 2007: Michael Dunkley made it perfectly clear where he stood on CITV saying, "I want to make it perfectly clear here today, that if the United Bermuda Party is elected at the next election we will shut down Government TV." And, he made sure that every UBP candidate parroted his lines:

Flash forward a year and a half and Michael Dunkley is admitting that he was wrong about CITV telling The Royal Gazette that he is "so impressed by the quality of programming that "maybe I got it wrong"."

We're glad that Mr. Dunkley's finally seen the light.

Update 3/20:

30strong makes some great points over at the Progressive Minds blog. He puts the argument in it's proper context:

In 2007 prior to the general election the then Opp Leader Michael Dunkley blasted the PLP Govt for creating CITV, an outlet to show Bermudian culture, etc. Before even giving the channel a chance, he decried that if elected, he would shut down CITV.

Obviously being out of the spotlight has been good for the former Leader, turned Senator. He has actually tuned into CITV and seen what the Government and the rest of Bermuda has seen from inception. In 2007, what we had was a typical knee-jerk reaction to a Government initiative. At long last, a UBP politician has admitted his fault.

For the UBP, all too often, they think the politics of "no" is the way to go. Their knee jerk opposition isn't what Bermuda deserves. Hopefully, Mr. Dunkley's learned his lesson.