Lukáš Machala, a government official whose name has been mentioned among possible candidates to lead the planned new government-controlled state broadcaster, Slovak Television and Radio (STVR), is not sure that the Earth is a sphere. Twenty-five centuries after Greek philosophers first theorised that the Earth is not flat, five centuries after Iberian explorers demonstrated that it is, indeed, a globe, and more than fifty years since innumerable spacecraft began taking photographs and video of the planet on which we live, Machala was asked by journalist Peter Žatko, in the television programme, “Reportéri” (Reporters), on April 29, whether people who believe that the Earth is flat should be given a platform on the current public broadcaster, RTVS.