I've seen this for a while but not considered it to be a "bad thing", living in a European country with fairly good public service broadcasting - I view it more as a stamp of authenticity that the video is direct from the PSB and not from a private individuals uploads (where it may have been edited or tampered with)

If anything I feel the markers downplay the amount of government intervention in Western European PSBs which is more subtle compared to Middle East/Asia..

@vfrmedia That's a positive way to look at it! But my concern is we're legitimizing a false dichotomy of equating journalistic integrity with its funding model. American PBS and NPR have been disappointing on certain subjects.

I recall history class taught us origin-purpose-value-limitation -- maybe we should apply that kind of thinking to current events, too?

I think this is more a cultural difference between USA and Europe?

Although PSBs aren't perfect by any means and there's a (USA inspired) pushback by the hard right against them (particularly rebooting the concept of "Lügenpresse") and many European ones *are* soft propaganda for the countries in which they operate, they are still valued over here..