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Michael Markovitz
@mmarkovitz
Media & Tech Policy/ My Own Views/ #Gooner4Life
Oct 25, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Amidst a fog of selective outrage re #SABC TV licence issue, fueled by clickbait media that would be happy to see SABC closed down & sold off to private sector, the question of how to legitimately fund #PublicBroadcasting in a constitutional democracy has been ignored. A thread👇 #SABC is not the only public broadcaster in the world using a licence fee mechanism to part-fund public mandate programming. But the statute that governs this - the Broadcasting Act - is 21 years old & needs review. Hence its 1 of the issues posed in govt's draft White Paper. /2