Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "Can Media Make Money Ethically? (David Sirota Interview)" video.

Germany and the UK have publicly funded media. They collecting funding directly from the population in some kind of mandatory fee for people to fund themselves this makes them independent from special interests and from the government. Two factors are essential here: 1) Funding has to be collected from the public without government involvement or involvement from companies (via ads) or even outside private funding for example from billionaire or they have leverage over the media 2) The management/control of the media has to be outside the influence of government. The latter is currently a major issue because in the UK the BBC managers are appointed by government and the current Tory government gone a little overboard with their attempts at taking over. Ironically this is exactly what David Pakman or other channels like TYT do just on a much larger scale.
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@joc.1353 There is a board consisting of members of different parts of society, politics and culture they are like an oversight committee for the media setting general directives and appointing and approving managers and holding them to account. Other than that the different public channels are managed like every other bussiness however with the premise of cost-coverage not profit-making. If there are profits for example licensing content they go back into media for investment/expansion or being used to reduce the fee.
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