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Putting the ‘your’ into the ABC

Those who like the public broadcaster should be the ones to fund it

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

What to do about the ABC and its shameless indulgence of in-house ideological bias at the taxpayer’s expense?

The pragmatic Germans have already solved the problem. They have found a way for citizens who disapprove of their national broadcasting service, the catchily named Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland or ARD, not to have to pay for it.

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