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Re:Sounds of Cologne – Story of the WDR Studio for Electroni... by sgift on Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:36PM (#38893914)
That's the reason for the Rundfunkgebühr instead of taxes. Keep it a bit further away from the state to limit its influence.
Re:Sounds of Cologne – Story of the WDR Studio for Electroni... by eternauta3k on Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:53PM (#38894094)
Forcing all conservatives to pay for media made by an unelected clique with very different values is still not great.

I know we want to avoid ending up with super-polarized media like the US, but I don't believe this is the way. I don't know what the way is, since you also don't want to give airtime to the crazies, and I feel the market for sane conservative news shrinks by the minute.

Re:Sounds of Cologne – Story of the WDR Studio for Electroni... by naiv on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:00PM (#38894824)
Why conservative? I am not a conservative.

I made a fortune in the adult industry in the 00s, one of my business partners now is extremely gay and I love him from the bottom of my heart, the other one is black as the night and more against uncontrolled immigration than any of my extreme conservative friends.

You are already called a right wing extremist if you believe that there are only 2 genders, that too many 'refugees' will destroy societies and value systems and that climate change has existed for millions of years.

I just want a neutral, unbiased source of news. No gender language, no judging wrong or right, no support of climate terrorist organisations, no praise of leftist ideologies, no climate change scaremongering.

But it will not change. At least not in Germany. The famous Kurt Beck incidents etc. It's over.

Re:Sounds of Cologne – Story of the WDR Studio for Electroni... by pelasaco on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @03:30PM (#38942670)
based on the last drama involving the executives of public TV Channels, I'm not sure if it stills hold true