For roughly ten days....German public TV news (ARD and ZDF) avoided mentioning the Harvey Weinstein story from Hollywood. I know....one of the top three stories from the US, and it simply was skipped over each night.
Last night at 8 pm....Saturday evening....the ARD crew finally put the story up and in 90 seconds told the entire basic story, with graphics and video from the US.
Avoiding it? There are various stories which pop up in the US news in an average year, with some appearing within twenty-four hours, and some taking weeks to appear.
The story with Hillary's bathroom email server? Most print-media German units told the story within five days after it started to appear around the US. The ARD and ZDF crowd (public TV) ? It was around six weeks later when they spent about two minutes one evening telling the story in an encapsulated form (roughly 60 seconds of video and 60 seconds of political analysis by the DC German guy trying stake out the 'no-big-deal' stance of the episode.
It might have occurred to 100,000 Germans to ask if their Bundestag political folks also kept bathroom servers in their house like this.....but no one was dare going to let this question be asked.
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