I speak German but i’ll be completely honest, i barely even follow any German news anymore, it’s just too infuriating and depressing. Literally everyone seems to be in complete denial and only preoccupied with the most irrelevant, minor local politics and mundane scandals while ignoring the big picture altogether. It’s like they think that by pretending that it’s still 2010 the house will stop burning down around them.
My partner really wanted to watch “the news” the other day for whatever reason so we watched the 2 minute Sunday morning Tagesschau. It sounded like the reddit popular feed, compressed into three boomer appropriate sound bites, and I got disproportionately frustrated.
Well at least it’s short. My SO sometimes watches the Heute Show which is almost 45 min of insufferable, smug liberal “satire”. I swear these comedy “news” shows are pound for pound ten times more effective propaganda brainwashing than consuming the same amount of mainstream media news. They pretend to be above partisan politics because they make some cheap jokes about “all sides” when they are in fact nothing but ideologically reinforcing the status quo. Half of the time all they do is ridicule anyone who is outside of the acceptable mainstream, plus a thousand different ways of saying “Putin bad, Russia bad”.
They pretend to be above partisan politics because they make some cheap jokes about “all sides” when they are in fact nothing but ideologically reinforcing the status quo.
It’s been a while since I watched it, but Oliver Welke (if it’s still him) always struck me as supporting the SPD even if he made fun of it a lot.
Die Anstalt used to be good, but I haven’t heard much good for the last 3 years from them and when I did occasionally tune in since, it was disappointing.
I get roped in to watching Heute Show once in a while as well. Insufferable describes it well… Like the tried and true The Daily Show format the comedy is used to make you take the opinion presented more seriously. It’s really quite insidious.
I speak German but i’ll be completely honest, i barely even follow any German news anymore, it’s just too infuriating and depressing. Literally everyone seems to be in complete denial and only preoccupied with the most irrelevant, minor local politics and mundane scandals while ignoring the big picture altogether. It’s like they think that by pretending that it’s still 2010 the house will stop burning down around them.
Jup, pretty much this. The most absurd propaganda is on every channel.
My partner really wanted to watch “the news” the other day for whatever reason so we watched the 2 minute Sunday morning Tagesschau. It sounded like the reddit popular feed, compressed into three boomer appropriate sound bites, and I got disproportionately frustrated.
Well at least it’s short. My SO sometimes watches the Heute Show which is almost 45 min of insufferable, smug liberal “satire”. I swear these comedy “news” shows are pound for pound ten times more effective propaganda brainwashing than consuming the same amount of mainstream media news. They pretend to be above partisan politics because they make some cheap jokes about “all sides” when they are in fact nothing but ideologically reinforcing the status quo. Half of the time all they do is ridicule anyone who is outside of the acceptable mainstream, plus a thousand different ways of saying “Putin bad, Russia bad”.
It’s been a while since I watched it, but Oliver Welke (if it’s still him) always struck me as supporting the SPD even if he made fun of it a lot.
Die Anstalt used to be good, but I haven’t heard much good for the last 3 years from them and when I did occasionally tune in since, it was disappointing.
I get roped in to watching Heute Show once in a while as well. Insufferable describes it well… Like the tried and true The Daily Show format the comedy is used to make you take the opinion presented more seriously. It’s really quite insidious.