Quote Originally Posted by CoffeeCup
Working guys always pay social taxes for everyone having medical care and for incapable and handicapped persons to support their life.
That's true. So, do we deem the TV ownership as essential as the medical care?

Quote Originally Posted by CoffeeCup
If I pay taxes and these taxes are used for a state TV. I, as a tax payer, can write angry letters if I don't like what I see with this TV (not sure if these letters will have any effect at all, but I have the right to write it). But what I see with license fee looks as the TV channel has no any responsibility for its products because the viewers will pay for it anyway.
I'm pretty sure the angry letters will have no effect in either case. The only way a media could be affected is through another [competing] media. And the state TV is fully controlled by the state officials, so if you don't like the content of the state TV, write angry letters to your regional MP whose office might at least be interested in replying to you.

PS. Whoa! I can make any thread political, can't I? "The rest is silence."