Yesterday, YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company, recipient of our TV license fees) chief Mikael Jungner caused yet another stir by wanting to take a peek at the subscriber databases of all the for-pay TV channels to cross-check with the payers of the TV license fees. It was also noted that the Helsinki area has relatively more people without a TV license than most other areas.
Without going too deep into discussing how idiotic this is on many levels – I mean for one, how stupid is it to publicly demand to get access to the competitors’ subscriber databases?! – I was reminded of the following photograph of a great situation which is one of the few cases I’ve ever seen where defacing an advertisement of sorts is justified and even funny as heck. The photographer is unfortunately unknown.
Indeed.
(disclaimer: I don’t have a TV and thus I don’t have a license.)
I wouldn’t object paying for a TV license here in the UK because there are plenty of quality shows on BBC. But with Yle (and other Finnish channels too) show “Norjaa ristiin rastiin”, re-runs from the early 90s, and sad sad cases of talk-shows which go under the name of political journalism. No thanks!
Are we talking about the same guy who caused a stir by rebelling against authorities and disgracing the statue of Fenno-Soviet relations like ten years ago?
What growing up does to you… Makes me laugh, really!
disclaimer: back home in Finland, the writer refused to pay for TV she never watched but still had a TV license for which Daddy paid as he is a good and obedient citizen. The writer is still in the process of growing out of her rebellion.