“The Most Unnecessary Government Agency, Period”
Translated from Icelandic and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Podcast host Ólöf Skaftadóttir called Iceland’s Media Commission “the most unnecessary government agency, period.”
- She said independent podcasts could compete with Iceland’s national broadcaster on equal terms but faced additional oversight from the commission.
Ólöf Skaftadóttir, one of the hosts of the Komið gott podcast, delivered a blunt assessment of Iceland’s Media Commission during an appearance on Morgunblaðið’s Dagmál program. She called it “the most unnecessary government agency, period.”
Skaftadóttir and Þórarinn Hjartarson, host of the podcast Ein pæling, discussed the position of independent podcasts and media with Andrés Magnússon. Their conversation focused on the conditions facing smaller, independent outlets.
Skaftadóttir said she was confident that independent podcasts could compete with programs from Iceland’s national broadcaster on equal terms. But she argued that small independent media organizations also had to deal with supervision from the Media Commission on top of that competition.
The most unnecessary government agency, period.
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Originally published by Morgunblaðið in Icelandic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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