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Talk shows more stupid?

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

I have no self-assured knowledge, whether the level of most talk shows really is so much worse than before, because I look no more for years.

But I've been watching for some time the trend - for reviews of stupid TV shows are sometimes very enjoyable to read - that the TV talkers get away from bad to worse. Sometimes it is really snappy, spiteful, malevolent.

Well it happened to me, just two days after Michael Hanfeld in the FAZ Markus Lanz and Philipp Rösler whether her appearance on ZDF down was that it was a pleasure just now and again that I get presents an Idiotieabservage, this time in the SZ , Plasbergs Yesterday Laber round in the ARD, the dangers of fame (as noted correctly, only one was in the famous round, namely Gottschalk, and also only in Germany) devoting taking on grain.

Near the beginning, we read that:

'"You suddenly had the opportunity to all to say anything, but you had when it was considering nothing to say." Bertolt Brecht. '

Immediately afterwards: 'A set of eighty years. And yet so up to date. ' (more ...)