Government media subsidies - that's our money they're spending

This matter has attracted considerable attention in the media recently - but I hadn't really got to the bottom of it until I read Alf Duran's column this morning (www.alfdurancorner.com)
The context on this occasion is Catalonia - the north eastern region of Spain, dominated by its capital city, Barcelona (greater metropolitan area has 70%+ of total population of Catalonia).
Politics here has been dominated by one party for more than 20 years until the last election (before Christmas). Since then, the value of a change is gradually emerging, as cosy relationships and a network of favours is slowly unravelled.
The report on media subsidies - and the 6 million euros paid across in 2003 to the publishers of La Vanguardia (the leading Barcelona daily paper), suggest a lack of transparency and misappropriation of taxpayers funds for political interests.

In short...state robbery