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This is kind of an apathetic mid-90s defeatist attitude is I think easy but not particularly nuanced or helpful. With that attitude nothing is independent: mon
by SCdF 11y ago
This is kind of an apathetic mid-90s defeatist attitude is I think easy but not particularly nuanced or helpful.
With that attitude nothing is independent: money has to come from somewhere. I think it's fair to say that every organisation has some amount of independence, some have money structures that allow them to have more than some others, and the BBC is an example of a situation where they can be more independent than an organisation that is more directly government funded.
- vixen99 11y agoThe BBC is certainly pretty much independent of the folk who actually compulsorily fund it (£3.65 billion tax-free income via the licence fee) even if they never watch or listen to it. The EU chip in a bit too. Not much as a % but it was £3 million of EU funds (i.e., European taxpayers who don't have a say in that either) between April 2011 and November 2013.