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Because these "public service" organisations only represent a small fraction of the population which would not be neemt enough to feed the Beast. The same is tr
by the_third_wave 2y ago
Because these "public service" organisations only represent a small fraction of the population which would not be neemt enough to feed the Beast. The same is true in Sweden where SVT and SR (television and radio, respectively) are largely staffed by and ideologically aligned with members and adherents of the more extreme left-wing parties while claiming to be independent ("oberoende" in Swedish, one of their favourite terms). When they interview "random people from the street" they quite often manage to meet political activists for "the cause" and/or members of "their" parties, something they also tend to "forget" to mention. Their "independence" is werken into their statues which they flagrantly violate with abundance without repercussion since it still is close to political suicide to suggest taking away their funding because people believe in the idea of public service. So do I but I also see that the current implementation of this lofty idea totally misses its goals and only furthers the polarisation of society.
What about you, reader, living in other countries with public service broadcasters, do they meet their goal of political independence? I know that the Dutch (NOS), Swedish (SVT and SR), British (BBC) and German (ARD, ZDF, NDR) versions do not. I do not know enough about the Belgian (i.e Flemish and Walloon) channels to say whether they do or don't. The Norwegian (NRK) television channel seems to be a bit of a mixed bag in this respect, it has made some programs which seem to escape the stranglehold of the "progressive" ideology, e.g. Hjernevask [1] ("brainwash"), a program deemed too controversial to be aired on Swedish television.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHTKnB0jqZD9cR0zMpNLCvNeqf2UlfIB https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHTKnB0jqZD9cR0zMpNL...
- nailer 2y agoI know. I don’t care if the BBC needs to be fed. That’s the responsibility of people that do.