Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!b22g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I was interviewed about the Tohoku disaster Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <6c8d473a-8831-4e44-b417-97c8a52f74d9@b22g2000prb.googlegroups.com> References: <6dde66be-d12d-44d8-9a26-7c6a9db65e8d@g3g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <5cu4p6dq1v7vhmf2dd4r55249qlgq25pag@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.221.176.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301479440 17092 127.0.0.1 (30 Mar 2011 10:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b22g2000prb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=123.221.176.51; posting-account=dFdNnAoAAACo_-792nICp6wBtnsk5ZbZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169818 On Mar 30, 9:32=A0am, The 2-Belo wrote: > We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan M= urphy > has exploded. Flight director confirms that: > > >NHK's budget should come out of general tax revenue, > >in much the same way as Australia's ABC. > > I once thought this way, but the way I see it, in its current state NHK d= oesn't > have to worry about the government slashing funding somewhere down the li= ne, > like the United States is currently trying to do with PBS. (Someone corre= ct me > if I've got it wrong here...) I sort of considered the fees a "TV tax" an= yway, > and admittedly my family and I watch a whole hell of a lot of NHK. I guess it is conceivable that sometime/somehow in the future funding could be slashed, though unlikely. Not sure whether how much that small army of licence fee collectors are paid, but would imagine there is some room for economizing. Also not sure how the tv licence fee funds NHK's radio & internet operations.