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German state: Citizenship applicants must support Israel (www.dw.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Nyos...

Most of our public broadcasting is decidedly NOT state funded. It's funded through the broadcasting fee and the government has no more influence over it than it does over private services.

Except for DW, which is not funded through the broadcasting fee but through our taxes and is actually 100% owned by the state. It is the official international broadcaster of the German state.

However:

The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act,[note 1][5] stating that content is intended to be independent of government influence.

So it's not like DW can only say what the government wants it to say.