State media does have some interesting trade offs for Europe specifically though. If a country doesn’t have that large of an addressable media market you might not get a lot of local language options without the state media.

It has to do both, because if you only focus on the "useful" you end up with a service nobody uses, and subsequently the use of it diminishes.

It also denies the role of national events in the public eye as "useful" for societal cohesion, which is wrong.