Bird says public broadcasting funding models need to be urgently researched
Media Monitoring Africa has expressed concern about what appears to be a conflict in the government of national unity regarding the SABC Bill when urgent measures need to be taken to ameliorate the financial position of the public broadcaster.
“If you look at the money they’ve given away and thrown at the SAA. Yet, every time they’ve done something for the SABC it hasn’t been here’s R5 billion. They’ve said here’s a loan and every time SABC has paid it back. So, unlike other public interest entities, they’ve just happily given them the money and not demanded that they pay it back, they haven’t done that with SABC. The question you have to ask is why. We need a public broadcaster if we’re going to stay a democracy.
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