In response Irib has launched new shows, but it has been hampered by its political approach as a steadfast critic of President Hassan Rouhani and his policies.
Though he softened his remarks on Monday night, Mr. Lieberman has been a steadfast critic of some elements of the entertainment industry.
He is a steadfast critic of the policies toward Palestinians of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and, in the Deutsche Welle interview, advocated once again an Israeli deal with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.
A steadfast critic of religion, who nevertheless recently criticised leading UK cinema chains for refusing to screen an advert featuring the Lord's Prayer, Dawkins has regularly been named one of Britain's top public intellectuals.
Although she was always a steadfast critic of apartheid, she had a much better grasp of the complexities and geo-strategic realities of South Africa than many of her contemporaries.
The last apartheid-era president, FW de Klerk, is quoted in Business Day as saying: "Although she was always a steadfast critic of apartheid, she had a much better grasp of the complexities and geo-strategic realities of South Africa than many of her contemporaries.
I have been a steadfast critic of the war in Iraq, and by extension the policies used to justify that war.
The Labour MPs have been among the most steadfast and outspoken critics of the Murdoch press over the affair.
Supporters see him as a steadfast Second Amendment purist; critics cast him as a paranoid figure who believes, as he said last year, in "a massive Obama conspiracy" to seize the nation's firearms or as a cynical mouthpiece who is paid nearly $1 million a year to warn of crackdowns and crises he knows will never come.
Yet, as critics remarked, she was steadfast in her refusal to cast herself as a victim.
