> If the “public” is funding broadcasting [...] do you really think they are going to be overly critical of the government? This is not a hypothetical question

> If the “public” is funding broadcasting [...] do you really think they are going to be overly critical of the government? This is not a hypothetical question, public broadcasters do exist and do criticize their governments. Will your next question be if public healthcare can work better than what the USA is doing? > If the “public” is funding broadcasting and the elected officials are holding the purse strings Then whoever drafted that law didn't do their job which would have included researching how public broadcasters around the world are organized. Or they're British and think limiting the power of Parliament is for Europeans, Colonials and other wimps anyway. > China had an economy but resources weren’t properly allocated and people were starving in one region while the other region was producing things that no one needed. Thanks for telling me things that I already know. I didn't write "Considering that the planners of the eastern block had to greatly simplify their plans and still weren't able to finish their calculations within 5 years," for decoration.