The “official state news outlet of Germany” would be something like the Bundespresseamt I guess. DW and other public broadcasters are state funded but operate independent of it.
Nyos…
Most of our public broadcasting is decidedly NOT state funded. It’s funded through the broadcasting fee and the government has no more influence over it than it does over private services.
Except for DW, which is not funded through the broadcasting fee but through our taxes and is actually 100% owned by the state. It is the official international broadcaster of the German state.
However:
The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act,[note 1][5] stating that content is intended to be independent of government influence.
So it’s not like DW can only say what the government wants it to say.
