The Propaganda Story

 It's a bit amusing and would beg questions.

ZDF (Channel Two, public TV in Germany) has a second network called ZDF-Info.  I'd call it a documentary type network.....they go out....pay something for documentary pieces done, and air them.  

I probably watch the network a total of two hours per year (it's just not that popular).  If you go and ask a hundred working-class Germans....it wouldn't surprise me if 70-percent admit having never watched it (in twenty-odd years).  

So they had picked up this four-part mini series....called 'China Versus the USA: Clash of the Superpowers'.  

For a brief while, it was up and could be seen.  Then some fairly harsh criticism came up.

I noticed this morning via 'TheN24.com'.....they picked up this documentary story, the criticism, and then mentioned....the series is 'gone' from the ZDF library.

Deal?  What 'TheN24' says is that the production crew to this documentary was Singaporean.  One of the odd characteristics of Singapore.....they are fairly pro-China (some might even suggest extremely pro-China).  So the series in question....came off as pro-China/anti-US.

As criticism poured into ZDF....the idea was that it was a propaganda piece that they had bought into....whether they realized it or not.

To be honest over the entire content of the ZDF media-library.....if you sat five propaganda experts down and watched all of their content....probably one of every five documentary pieces might be labeled this way (my humble view).  In fact, if you wanted to become an expert on propaganda....I'd endorse their library as a great training tool.  

My only question at the end of this episode?  These guys who signed off the 'purchase' of the documentary....had to sit down and watch the four-part series.  Did they not consider somewhere in the midst of this....it being valued as propaganda?  Or were they just in some rush, saying they had watched the series....when they hadn't?  

To be honest, after all this chatter....I'd like to watch the series now....to value it myself as propaganda.