Publicly funded, like the BBC "tax" in the UK which they used to have (not sure if they still do?) Or PBS/NPR in the US, funded by taxpayers. Worked reasonably

Publicly funded, like the BBC "tax" in the UK which they used to have (not sure if they still do?) Or PBS/NPR in the US, funded by taxpayers. Worked reasonably well, and fairly independently, for decades until Trump defunded it.