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by autoexecbat 670 days ago
Some countries provide government funded news that is of reasonable quality, for example abc.net.au/news
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Many others, partial listing:

- ABC (Australia)

- BBC (UK)

- CBC (Canada)

- CPB, NPR, and PBS (US, though with very limited public funding)

- Canal Once, Canal 22, Canal Catorce (Mexico)

- DR (Denmark)

- Deutshlandfunk, DeutscheWelle and regional broadcasters (NDR, RBB, SWR, MDR, WDR, BR, HR, SR, RB), the last for somewhat interesting denazification reasons.

- EBC (Brazil)

- ERT (Greece)

- NRK (Norway)

- Polskie Radio (Poland)

- RNZ/TVNZ (New Zealand)

- Sveriges Radio/Television (Sweden)

- TVN (Chile)

- VOA, AFN (US, not broadcast domestically)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting>

I don't know other countries but Polskie Radio and TVP was turned into propaganda machine of who was ruling at the time with News starting with "thanks to the XXX and despite YYY saying it was not possible/stealing/selling to the Germans". It is a reason I'm not watching TV anymore.