Comment by lynx97
12 hours ago
Public broadcasters in .de and .at have generally become very shady. To me it seems they dont have to pretend to do good journalism anymore, because they are financed by a mandatory fee per household anyway. It started to be very visible during COVID times. Unfortunately, since then, it only got worse.
>they are financed by a mandatory fee per household anyway
That pisses me the fuck off as well. Not only is it forced coercion to pay for state propaganda, not only are their fees higher than what the brits pay for the BBC, they also don't produce any valuable IP for all that money, like the BBC does (Dr. WHo, Top Gear, etc).
Nobody managed to convince me that it's not a scam and jobs program for the politically connected people to hire themselves, their friends and their family.