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Public broadcasting is salvageable. (Why football should go to commercial)

Our public broadcasting system is unique in the world. Unfortunately, it is not something to be particularly proud of. The system and the thinking behind it are virtually incomprehensible. Or as NTR director Paul Rƶmer put it less diplomatically in August: we have 'a backward system that cannot (anymore) be explained to anyone'.

It was a sideline in his interview with The Telegraph, in which he mainly advocated an advertising-free public broadcaster. A public broadcaster with less commercial pressure and ...

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Erwin Gaur

Erwin Gaur (half pseudonym for Erwin Angad-Gaur, 1970) is a writer and composer and studied Arts and Cultural Studies in Rotterdam. He is also a board member of the Ntb, Sena, Kunsten 92 and is chairman of Platform Makers, among others. His short novel 'Gardi' appeared this spring.View Author posts

Our public broadcasting system is unique in the world. Unfortunately, it is not something to be particularly proud of. The system and the thinking behind it are virtually incomprehensible. Or as NTR director Paul Rƶmer put it less diplomatically in August: we have 'a backward system that cannot (anymore) be explained to anyone'.

It was a sideline in his interview with The Telegraph, in which he mainly advocated an advertising-free public broadcaster. A public broadcaster with less commercial pressure and ...

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