5 Aug
2018
5 Aug
'18
4:22 p.m.
On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 11:52:55 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
It's well made sarcastic humour, from the times
before "political
correctness" became a plague, so it is, but not that that much playing
with the starry-eyed idealism you mentioned, but more with the general
issue of turning a blind eye.
Well then, here's something even funnier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFgSRM1ANjU
Around a quarter of a century this film was often
shown by public
service broadcasting. Showing this film would be much more suitable
nowadays, so here is a conspiracy theory: The governing coalition
would dislike to show it nowadays and public service broadcasting
cares about the wishes of the governing coalition.
Well, in Germany there might be Total Freedom of the Press, which I
doubt, but that's certainly not the absolute case in many other
Western countries. A recent case in point: after hitting a couple,
Macron's protégé and security guard Benalla gets a clean shave taking
off his long beard that looks too "islamic", gets a pair of glasses
that makes him look intellectual, and gets on prime TV explaining how
hard his life was. How sorry people should feel about this poor guy
hitting other people around. To consider that it is a "conspiracy" to
think that political figures are not tailor-made for medias, as well as
related issues, to see it as a "governing coalition" is somewhat funny
though.