Journalists and Activists Rebel as Czech Government Targets Public Media Funding
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Czech democracy activists, public broadcasters and journalist unions are protesting a government plan to replace TV and radio license fees with fixed state allocations, warning the move would enable political control, strip roughly 1.4 billion crowns from public media budgets, trigger layoffs and regional studio closures, and produce extensive local "news deserts" that threaten media independence.
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