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Comment by KarlKemp

No, see, that's but one example of how your unwillingness or inability to accept any complexity or nuance gets in the way of thinking.

The TV license system is set up specifically so that the institution is somewhat isolated from day-to-day politics. It's a completely different situation if the PM can decide on a whim to fund you or not, or if there's a difficult-to-change law that sets the fees that you get for a decade in advance

If you insist that everything is the same and all politicians are corrupt and all media are lying then you're just giving away any power you might have. Why would any politician not turn corrupt or leave id you are screaming invectives at them at the top of your lung, completely divorced from their actual work?

That's why RT loves cynicism and tries to amplify exactly that work view: it's a self-fulfilling prophesy.

parent KarlKemp 4 years ago

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