• @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    Type: Statutory corporation with a royal charter

    A statutory corporation is a government entity created as a statutory body by statute.

    It doesn’t matter what language you try to couch it in, “state funded”, “editorial independence”, whatever. It was founded by the state, is funded by the state, and is a government entity. If it quacks like a duck.

    • Veraticus
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      -62 years ago

      Couch it? What? You’re just wrong, it’s not state-run. Like words matter.

      • BuxtonWater
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        42 years ago

        As a brit, it absolutely is state-run in every way except the technicallity of the employees not being government workers and having a semi-indepdent structure, it is undeniably linked to the british government by nature, history, and practicality.

        • Veraticus
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          -22 years ago

          It absolutely is not state-run; VOA and RT are and the BBC is not. Obviously it’s not totally cut and dry but to claim it’s state run is simply a misunderstanding of its history and charter. As I said earlier, words actually mean something.