Students set Bangladesh’s state broadcaster on fire as violent protests rage

More than a dozen people have been killed as thousands of students protest controversial quotas for government jobs

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I thought the state broadcaster was a person. It is a building.
- That's an interesting mix up but I could totally understand it.
  
  Is there no state run TV / radio where you live?
  
  We call them public broadcast stations here in the US. The host is usually called a broadcaster or anchor.
  
  If that person is in the US, no, there is not.
- To be fair, I think in the US, even if we did have a state broadcaster, we would refer to this as setting the state broadcaster building on fire. Because state broadcaster sounds like a person and not a building or institution. But it might just sound that way to us because we don't have a state broadcaster.
The protesters are definitely in the right. Reserving some (in this case, many) of the top jobs in the country for the descendants of past protesters/fighters is just nepotism by another name.

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