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The Day's Bureaucrat asked how many cities should burn before France would declare a state of emergency and the country would be, in his opinion, on the brink of a leftist Islamist uprising. He also asked if Yle would report on the events at that point as protests by dissatisfied students from their schools. #Ranska #mielenosoitus #kansalaisoikeudet (translated)

– From the beginning, we have been able to build an identity for the team. In my opinion, coaching processes in Finland are usually unfortunately short, so it's great that we can now continue building in a sustainable way. There's no other option but to keep our chin up and keep working, Virtanen states in the Jukurit press release. #Jukurit #Jääkiekko #Liiga (translated)

As a former member of the National Coalition Party, Elina Ketonen wrote that she had been following the party's change in immigration policy with interest. She noted that in a recent poll by Yle, the National Coalition Party had fallen behind the Finns Party, and the party's parliamentary group had presented a strict immigration line. According to Ketonen, this was about the parliamentary group's program, not a directive approved by the party congress. She wrote that the program would not bind the next government nor guarantee concrete decisions during the next term. Ketonen interpreted the shift in line primarily as a bid for votes and assessed that the rhetoric would harden as support weakened. In her view, credibility stemmed from consistent actions, and voters had the right to ask whether the National Coalition Party's line had truly changed or if only the campaign speeches had changed. #maahanmuutto #politiikka #keskustelu (translated)

Veli Karimies claimed that Yle had spread false information about the Finns Party on several issues. According to him, Yle had reported that the Finns Party did not come to the morning studio, even though the party had not even been asked about participation. Karimies also said that Yle was claiming that the distribution obligation had not been on the agenda, even though Yle had reported at the end of September that it had been on the table. He believed that the claims were getting through to people with less information and did not consider the incident an innocent mistake. #Perussuomalaiset #media #valeuutiset (translated)

Elina Hiltunen wrote that Finland is suffering from cuts and over-indebtedness and criticized Yleisradio for its use of tax money. According to her, Iltalehti had revealed that Yle used 200,000 euros of taxpayers' money to conceal its own receipts. Hiltunen said that the use of over 500 million euros in annual cash flows was not transparent, and highlighted the argument against transparency as being the threat to freedom of speech. She asked what was hidden in the receipts and urged sharing the video and commenting with opinions. #Suomi #verot #avoinTieto (translated)

Mikko Vuorenpää wrote that Yle's main news covered the decline in PISA results. He hinted that based on the news footage, one could conclude which classes had the weakest results, and asked why Yle had filmed specifically in that class. https://t.co/FKrbT34jRx #Pisa #koulutus #uutiset (translated)

Leena Pihanurmi compared sports organizations to social welfare organizations and considered them to belong to a privileged sector of organizations. She wrote that the Ministry of Education and Culture granted a total of 1.28 million euros in subsidies to the Finnish Volleyball Association for the year 2026. According to Pihanurmi, the association's CEO, Karri Virtanen, engaged in efficient Porsche cars, among other things. Pihanurmi urged familiarity with the report from the National Audit Office for the year 2025. According to her, the audit office estimated that approximately 1.2 billion euros in state grants for sports were granted between 2015 and 2024, and identified significant shortcomings in the funding. Pihanurmi described the findings of the report as indicating that the grant policy had maintained old organizational structures and that sufficiently precise goals had not been defined for the grants. She also wrote that the grant criteria did not encourage effective use of funds or impact, and that the effectiveness of general grants had not been assessed for ten years. According to her, the wealth of organizations was inadequately considered in the assessment of grant needs, even though some sports federations were very financially solid. Pihanurmi reported that the report also criticized the fact that the financial risks related to the corporate structures of the organizations were not sufficiently considered, and that the inadequate guidance of general grants was compensated for by special grants. Additionally, Pihanurmi wrote that the distribution agreement from 2020 still affected the distribution of grants among organizational groups. According to her, municipalities had been granted overlapping funding for the same purposes as state funding for sports, and the Ministry of Education and Culture did not monitor whether the state funding for municipalities was used for activities defined by law. #liikunta #urheilu #valtionavustukset (translated)

Jari Parantainen wrote that there was only one explanation for keeping the use of taxpayer funds out of the public eye: According to him, it was known at Yle that its way of using taxpayers' money would not withstand public scrutiny. https://t.co/HCC2xm6E7O #verot #julkisuus #valtionrahoitus (translated)

Between the lines, it was written that Yle had covered two politicians during the week: Antti Lindtman from the SDP and Päivi Räsänen from the Christian Democrats. According to him, the articles related to Lindtman's book "Tulirinta" were uncritical, while the radio play made about Räsänen was completely fictional and slanderous. Between the lines, it was viewed that both impacted people's perceptions with taxpayers' money. https://t.co/GtKDnk7p4b #politiikka #media #kriittisyys (translated)

Sami Antinniemi wrote that the United States would go into orbit while Finland would remain in what he described as its "happy swamp." He criticized Yleisradio for allegedly downplaying Elon Musk's actions and claimed that Yleisradio was hindering Finland's development. Antinniemi demanded the immediate dissolution of Yleisradio. https://t.co/Av5nsL0MDI #Suomi #kehitys #Yleisradio (translated)

Petteri Tarkkonen wrote that the National Coalition Party had practically functioned as a right-wing party for decades while the Finns Party focused on immigration. According to him, under Riikka Purra's leadership, the Finns Party had become the leading economic party, making it a more acceptable alternative for traditional National Coalition voters. Tarkkonen assessed that the Finns Party also did not have the traditional burdens like political appointments or Yle that the National Coalition Party faced. Tarkkonen claimed that the media had sought to present the Finns Party as merely a racist party and create the impression that voting for the party would make the voter a racist. He believed that the media also aimed to wedge between the National Coalition Party and the Finns Party but assessed that social media, especially X, was rejecting this narrative. He predicted that the 2027 elections would be a turning point in Finnish history. According to Tarkkonen, the National Coalition Party ending up in a left-wing government would lead to a development similar to that of the Centre Party, and cooperation between the National Coalition Party and the left would remain a matter of distributive politics. He also estimated that the legacy of a red-green government would be similar to that of Sanna Marin's government. Tarkkonen appealed to the National Coalition Party and Petteri Orpo to abandon the best-hope politics he described and not to turn the party into an economic-democratic entity. According to him, the traditional National Coalition voter would not vote for the Social Democrats. #Politiikka #Kokoomus #Persut (translated)

Eija-Riitta Korhola-Dunderfelt suggested that Yle A-studio should hold a thorough discussion on the topic and invite a representative from Yle's management either to defend the arrangement or to apologize for it. She wrote that the paying audience demanded transparency. https://t.co/AU9Gyq9zvv #avoimuus #keskustelu #Yle (translated)

According to the Daily Bureaucrat, Yle had hired lobbying companies to promote its objectives related to the government program. He wrote that the objectives included securing Yle's abundant funding and that the company would not have to disclose under the Publicity Act how it uses its money. https://t.co/d08IF3ZnAd #Yleisradio #lobbaminen #julkisuuslaki (translated)