TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England

Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by hef19898 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:50AM (#25832089)

Thanks for the edit. In Germany, the means are to put people leaning to certain parties in top positions. Or people with the right connections. As a result, the bavarian contribution, the BR, is not necessarly known for its liberal agenda. Others are more left leaning.

One other way is to have former press and spokes persons from a government taking up positions at the braodcasters. When the current (?) spokesman of Angela Merkal left as a news presenter from the ARD (or ZDF, to lazy to loo it up...),that was regarded as a braek from customs and more or less a no-no affecting the independance of these broadcasters.

TL;DR: Political parties, and not so much the "government", use soft power to influence these briadcasters. Quite often by having certain people selected for certain jobs.

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Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by stkdump on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @09:57AM (#25833967)

Is public broadcasting more prone to these things than privately funded broadcasting? If yes, why?

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Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by hef19898 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:28AM (#25834329)

No, if anything I'd say even less. Private broadcasting can be influenced by add customers, politics and so on. Public briadcasting more or less only by soft political influence. Which tends to balance itself out between parties anyway. So if anything, basic bias tends to be the best reflection of the current center I can think of.

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