Pseudo-Debates?

I noticed this got brought up in the German Bundestag this week....the SPD Party stood up and said that all this 'pseudo-debate' stuff....is 'crap' (my word for the commentary).  Pseudo-debate?  Well....it generally means that you intentionally picked out a pretty stupid topic to get people focused on something....that has no real outcome or accepted position.  The problem here with the SPD commentary....that's the general product of almost all political parties and goes on....all year round. 

When you sit and watch German public TV and their forums....it's virtually all about a Pseudo-debate.  You can estimate that for about forty-six weeks out of the year where something is carried to the public....virtually every single week there is roughly six hours of public TV time devoted to debate over some political topic.  Often, they try to debate over Trump and US news....just to throw people off and suggest there's other worries in the world beyond the German border.

N-TV, the commercial news organization, got onto this topic today.  It's worth a read (all in German).

What I will say is that something rather odd came out of this September 2017 election, the coalition that formed, and the ministers selected.  On the CDU/CSU side....their ministers came out swinging on discussion topics, and probably got hyped on the 8 PM public TV news almost nightly.  Oh, I'd agree....it's borderline Pseudo-debate topics and 'chatter'.  But the thing is....the public is openly talking over things and believe this hype is meaningful.  The SPD folks?  If they were to get into this discussion.....they need to be opposing the positions, and much of that time......they would be hooked to a negative position....getting them no points in polling or public attention.

It's hard to say if things were planned that way, or that the CDU-CSU folks accidentally picked a group of ministers who want to get into the public theme of 'problems'.

So my question would be....are we to the point of Pseudo-pseudo-debates existing?  Fake but really fake political chatter? 

Would anyone even go to admit that Pseudo-pseudo-debates exist?

If you walked around to working-class Germans, and asked how many watch these public TV forums and all the political chatter....my humble guess is that more than two-thirds of German society don't see much value in the public forums being televised.  Under the age of thirty....it's probably less than 10-percent of society that watch or have some dedicated viewing over this. 

As for the Pseudo-debate idea harming the SPD in the fall state elections (Bavaria and Hessen)?  Well....you have to wonder about that.