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> One of the great things of the Licence fee was that the Government does not get to control the national TV like it does when the one who pays is it directly.

> One of the great things of the Licence fee was that the Government does not get to control the national TV like it does when the one who pays is it directly. Don't know about that. Here in Germany public state broadcasters have a board elected by parties, churches, unions and other large bodies aiming, on paper, for proportional representation. The results are insufferable, mediocre palliative-care TV shows, corrupt sports (I hear they have that in UK, too ;), and news shows, with the occasional outstanding documentation (public radio stations are better IMO). Until recently, I regarded their news as ok-ish, but the hysterical focus on CoVid and their tendency to polarize and putting every critique against the party line into the realm of Corona deniers or some such in the last two years has pulled the curtain for me, to show a self-referential political-medial complex bringing up topics irrelevant for large parts of the populace.

IAmEveryone 5y ago
Their coverage is well within the range of opinion of every political party except far-right AfD. As such, it represents >90% of the voters in last year‘s election. They are not neutral when it comes to values such as democracy itself, and expecting them to be is silly.
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- tannhaeuser 5y ago
  > They are not neutral when it comes to values such as democracy itself, and expecting them to be is silly. That's exactly the kind of Skinner box reflex conditioned by public news I was talking about. You know, there are good reasons to defend a civil society threatened by lockdowns, unconstitutional curfews, contact bans, and restricting freedom of assembly. And to criticize our government's over-reaching, yet ineffective counter-measures such as contact tracing and plans for compulsory vaccination in the absence of any facts regarding its long-term consequences (in fact, when all that's known is that its effect lasts about 3 months).
  - fooster 5y ago
    None of that is remotely true. Please stop spreading misinformation.
  - mavhc 5y ago
    There's probably some kind of largest pandemic in 100 years thing going on, tends to cause people to not want to die

IAmEveryone 5y ago

Their coverage is well within the range of opinion of every political party except far-right AfD. As such, it represents >90% of the voters in last year‘s election. They are not neutral when it comes to values such as democracy itself, and expecting them to be is silly.

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tannhaeuser 5y ago
> They are not neutral when it comes to values such as democracy itself, and expecting them to be is silly. That's exactly the kind of Skinner box reflex conditioned by public news I was talking about. You know, there are good reasons to defend a civil society threatened by lockdowns, unconstitutional curfews, contact bans, and restricting freedom of assembly. And to criticize our government's over-reaching, yet ineffective counter-measures such as contact tracing and plans for compulsory vaccination in the absence of any facts regarding its long-term consequences (in fact, when all that's known is that its effect lasts about 3 months).
- fooster 5y ago
  None of that is remotely true. Please stop spreading misinformation.
- mavhc 5y ago
  There's probably some kind of largest pandemic in 100 years thing going on, tends to cause people to not want to die