* Government broadcasters
* Government broadcasters
* CBC, RTBF, yes
* SRG SSR, hell no
* ZDF, not really
Either way, all of them have editorial independence.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Perhaps I need to make improvements to the text. Sometimes you've been around for so long that you forget what confuses people.
The money is not a tax because it's not the government that collects it, and the government cannot decide how much it should be. Instead, there are institutions that have been granted powers to levy their own fees and self-govern to a large degree. Accountability is established through an oversight board that includes representatives from civic society and other independent review institutions.
The government neither set nor collects the TV tax, and has no control over what the financed media publishers do.
Do you realize how silly it is to tell me how a system you hitherto didn't know about works by quoting something I wrote? Feel free to check the source it cites for more context.
" Do you realize how silly it is to tell me how a system you hitherto didn't know about works by quoting something I wrote? Feel free to check the source it cites for more context. " I do know how good the systems work. Maybe you should accept people can come to different conclusions. This like arguing with a conspiracy theorist.
The only true thing that my parliament does not have any say but some obscure council with e.g. representatives from the church.
It is a shitty system with left bias news, shitty films and shitty tv shows. Only the left defends it fearing they might lose a powerful media institution.