Reaction To Die Anstalt (The Information War For Ukraine) 

what i really love about Germany is the fact that satire and criticism against the government, politics, police etc. is aired on state tv.

Yes, Die Anstalt already caused some trouble to a lot of people, but thats no problem. They are part of Public Broadcasting, so they do not rely on advertisement for finances. And as long as they do not lie and present in a satirical way, they are also protected by laws of "Kunstfreiheit" (Freedom of Arts), which is really a thing here in Germany as it is the opposite of the way the Third Reich did it with "Entartete Kunst". As long as it is "Art" in some way, you can do almost everything here in Germany. For each show Die Anstalt publishes a list of sources they relied on for the show. Absolutly impossible to sue them for anything with success - that is true freedom of speech.

I just want to point out that this video of "Die Anstalt" was released in 2014 so years before the full scale invasion launched by russia. There is a 45 minute long video from them where they fully condemn the disgusting russian war against ukraine in a nice split between serious talk and satire. Sadly there is no english translation available but I want to make all of you aware. They are completely disgusted by the russian war against ukraine.

Sadly, there are a lot less people watching the show than you'd expect. For people actually watching the show, most of them are well informed ahead already. So the impact isnt quite as big as one would wish for.

Bild is the most sold newspaper here in Germany and was it for a longer period of time even in Europe as well. They tend to phrase everything in a lurid way and sometimes they simply report from unverified sources. Yes, the title was really printed that way. In addition, Bild has already received 15 reprimands from the German Press Council this year with its online section (out of 43 reprimands in total). So you can imagine how they create their stories sometimes.

In an earlier episode, The Anstalt was about connections between German journalists and transatlantic thinktanks. Two publishers of the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit" sued The Anstalt. After three rounds at the court, they lost. 😉

Quick guys, he dug up the realy controversial one. Edit: And yes, they got into trouble with German several times, especially for this episode. In a sketch before this one, they had visualized the ties of the chief-editor of "Zeit", one of the large German newspapers to the military-industrial-complex. While beeing correct on their huge Conspiracy board one link was misplaced by accident and said editor sued them for spreading "misinformation" which was hilarious because the only line of argument, he could legally use was: "They said, I'm in bed with five non-government lobby-groups, but in reality I'm only in bed with four." They won that case, as they won all of the others afaik. On their homepage, they post large PDFs with all of their sources, to be safe, that they are not misrepresenting anything. And also maybe important to mention: While they are pretty hard on Nato and the West, they are far from pro-Russia. They aimed for Putin too several times, epsecially during the current invasion. Edit 2: Oh and the "controversial road toll" turned out to be the biggest infrastructure desaster in the last decade. It was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court (because it fucking was and everybody could see it from the beginning" but the ministry had already cloed deals with several companies to enforce it, which they had to terminate and pay findings woth of 243 Million Euros. There is currently an investigation going on and the government is looking for a way to sue Adreas Scheuer, the minister who initiated it. Oh yeah and the best thing: His fuckup made the guy so well known, that he is now a reoccuring character in "die Anstalt" and a public favourite. In a lot of episodes, he has a discussion with Sir Isaac Newton, where Newton is the theoretically most rational person to exist and Scheuer the most irrational person.

The thing about the performances of The Anstalt is that they do not reach a big enough audience. Their political satire is genius and nuanced and so often they make the point that much of the opinions in the public space are either for or against something, while in reality most situations are too complex for catchy sound bites or headlines. So they do confront big papers like Bild and Spiegel a lot, but their sensible and accurate critique is often too late, since prominent papers here are already hooked on the next scandal or event

It should be noted that the creators of Die Anstalt from this scene have since completely sided with Ukraine and condemned both the war and the Russian propaganda associated with it. This video is as you mentioned much older, from 2014.

At this early time "Die Anstalt" lacked a lot of Russia critisism and mostly fokused on the west. It has to be said, they never lied or twisted the reality or made some blind pro Russia propaganda, they just never went deep into the wrong doings of Russia, like they did with the USA. Later after the full scale invasion Die Anstalt made another episode trying to clarify their position in a balanced way and talked about many crimes commited by Russia over time.

When he says „this is a decicive Blow“ he‘s actually quoting a famed German myth about the WWI when the narrative was, that the German army was undefeated in the field, but daggered in the back by the politicians who accepted the immensly unfair Versailles treaty

please keep in mind that "bild" is the german verison of "the sun" ...soo media might be a stretch. :P

And even though we have this "brilliant political comedy" in Germany, more and more people vote for fascists. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to do very much.

i remember back in school we had to read the same story from many different newspapers and write down how they differ and what the goal of each newspaper seems to be in regards to messaging. wasnt so much about propaganda though but more about how populism works, propaganda was just on the way :P. point is we have a school subject called "political education" that deals with that kind of stuff and seems to be very much missing from the curriculum in alot of countries.

As a German, the guy giving expert advice, wearing a leather jacket, drinking tea from a very refined tea set, has some serious Gestapo vibes.

I'm so waiting for you to discover Georg Schramm in his role as Oberstleutnant Sanftleben.

Saw it when it came out. Glad to see it finally catches on outside of the German-speaking sphere. Just one clarification: it's not 'Time'(-magazine, English speaking) that launched the injunction, but one of Germany's most respected newspapers (sic), called 'Die Zeit', which translates into 'The Time'.

I dont know if it is common for our german media but the nice/important thing about "Die Anstalt" for me is also, that you can check the references of the important things of an episode at the zdf mediathek, since 2018. So if you want to understand more or even don´t trust the informations/interpretation of the episode you can look up things and read/watch listen to it yourself.

Well, truth be told and with all my love for "die Anstalt", but that clip is easily the leader in their "aged poorly" category. To give them credit, they owned up to that, but yeah, ironically this whole bit displayed exactly the type of prejudice they wanted to attack the press for (which turned out to have a *lot* more evidence and factual basis than die Anstalt showed, also including the plane incident) Overall, die Anstalt had to admit that they were trying to see both sides so hard that they came across as highly partisan. And they did, they admitted and self reflected on several excellent, nuanced yet also hilarious episodes. For which I respect them a lot.

Yeah this video definitely didn't age well. They made new videos where they talk about how they were wrong, however I haven't seen a subtitled version yet

12:33 Let´s say we have better tools to recognise propaganda. But we have also way better tools to amplify propaganda. It also helps a lot that many people speak a second or third language but in the end you need to make the decision what tools do you WANT to use.

XD this is a very old episode from the anstalt, they did this episode while the krim war. Since Putin invade the main land of ukraine die Anstalt made a new episode, that apologieced about this one and made clear that they see ukraine in the defence and russia as an aggressior.

Sorry to correct you, but people in Germany meanwhile are easier to manipulate than one could assume. Satire doesn't do anything to the most, even the ones who enjoy it. No reflection, no nothing. Satire loses an all levels against psychological warfare. What I have learned in my lifetime: Humans follow like sheeps. Let me quote Assange: What has been your biggest disappointment? “Learning that even intelligent people can be cowards and that courage is a much rarer attribute than intelligence.” - JulianAssange

Die Anstalt has dropped some bombs but ngl every german who actually believes what 'BILD' writes ....probably doesn't watch Die Anstalt xD

"Bild" approx. the level of The Sun or the Daily Fail sorry Mail..... And satire is protected as we do have freedom of speech and press...sort of !

8:55 Yes they used a lot of real titles and statements of big german newspapers of that time, which is why they said in the beginning that "any similaritiers to the current news are inevitable". That was the whole point they were trying to show. Also yes Die Anstalt caused much trouble and there is a "banned" episode, which you cant find in the vod section anymore. It was about how much influence the media has on politics. Like they actually wrote some laws and speech about the laws for politicans to then praise the speech in their own newspaper. Understandable they didnt wanted that to show up and as powerful as they are, they got it banned. And this is actually the joke they making at 13:53. "die Zeit" / the time was one of the media companies that forced prohibitions etc. (edit: should have watched till the end first xD)

Living in Germany I often watch "die Anstalt" because they treat current complicated political and financial issues in a ironical and satirical way. Although this episode is 9 years old the basic problems reporting on war have not changed. I find it very good as I find most episodes of die Anstalt very good. They pinpoint the problems, spell them out, and mostly in a funny or hilarious way. Even when my own political views are under attack or criticised 😮 they do it with dignity and style. Then it is for me not so funny but mostly I can laugh with the audience and say: "Yeah, they are dead right" 😂

People say Germans have no humour. Well, they do have satire and sarcasm, in good measure.

The two heads of "Die Anstalt", Max Uthoff and Klaus von Wagner were really on point in most of their shows. I love watching this kind of satirical information since years, it's even more funny if you get all the little gags and wordplay relating to other subjects 😉 It's like reading a book of Terry Pratchett (R.I.P😢) in english compared to the translated version (even though are quite good)

You really deserve more attention. Love from Germany

They see it different these days, and dud a very good show about it. I hope it gets english subs soon 👍🏻 Still, this episode here shows how parts of the media work...worldwide. (Yes, I said 'parts')

Oh, I remember... German kind of self-righteous mocking. Mocking about a civil air craft shot down over Hrabove by a 9K37 Buk missile (later confirmed so by Russia) with 22 miles max. range over Russian occupied territory - some 100 mi away from Russian-UA front line, speculating "who it was". Well... Germans like these sorts of jokes. They're funny. Funny as long as no-one ever attacks them - forcing them defend themselves through endless debates and smartass advice. *Want to enjoy real good German comedy (superbly reflecting on typical German habits such as self-righteousness): Try "Loriot" (1923-2011).*

The problem is that people in Germany prefer to watch trash TV like Jungle Camp, and such pearls as Die Anstalt unfortunately have far too few viewers.

I really like Die Anstalt, Volker Pispers, Scheibenwischer and similar shows. And I appreciate that you show them to a larger audience. But I'm afraid that far fewer people watch these shows than you might suspect. Politically informed people, critical thinkers, leftists and intellectuals are mostly followers of such shows - fortunately, German public broadcasting provides a niche for this shows. So don't overestimate us Germans. If you come to Germany look for these niches, otherwise you will only be disappointed. By the way, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel etc. do a pretty good job with their shows in the USA, too. Best regards from Munich

Unfortunately, this is far too outdated. In two new episodes it is said that they used to be too uncritical and were connected to Russia. Unfortunately I haven't found any English subtitles for the two episodes (from April 5, 2022 and from March 8, 2022). Maybe I'll try it myself with English subtitles and chop up the two episodes into several parts on RU-vid. Unfortunately, pro-Putin people always send clips like this for their propaganda war. They forget that this episode is already very old.

Sadly more people in Germany read the "Bild" than watch satire like this. To quote Volker Pispers: "The Bild-Zeitung..... this piece of crap that's so disgusting you insult a dead fish if you wrap it in it!"

Hey ich finde das echt toll, dass du dich relativ häufig mit deutscher Satire wie z.B. "Die Anstalt" oder der "heute Show" auseinander setzt. Es fällt natürlich auf, dass du diese Formate sehr positiv beurteilst. Man könnte dir also eine gewisse Einseitigkeit unterstellen, da es natürlich auch in Deutschland nicht nur gute Satire gibt. Aber deine Analysen sind gut und dein schottischer Akzent ist grandios. Vielen Dank dafür und weiter so!

@Who Is Mert? You have asked if "Die Anstalt" ever got problems in Germany for talking about being so harsh in their style of reporting. And actually there are a hand full of shows like that. Talking about important political topics in a very sarcastic way. And most of the times they can be watched on TV Channels payed for by the government and taxes. So they get in trouble a lot, like when "Jan Bömermann" made a satirical song about "Erdogan". But in general all they do is obviously satiric and thus covered by laws for artistic freedom.

After watching this one, the next to watch is "Die Anstalt vom 5. April 2022" where they question their own role in underestimating the changes in Russia. Here on youtube as "Ist die Anstalt Schuld am Krieg in der Ukraine".

"Die Anstalt" show aired at 05.04.2022 is a very good show (sorry - no english subs). the show is very critical about itself. the normal tendency is - as you see in the 2 videos you have seen - USA/NATO/german politics/media is despicable and russia is not so evil. but in this show they scrutinise this view... great show

Greetings from Germany! Hallo aus Deutschland! Please do me one favor and never ever take BILD as a leading example of german press. The only thing you can use that paper for happens on a toilet. Ok ok, it's sad enough that BILD has an unrealistic high value even among german public but still it is nothing more than a waste of time, paper and your breath while reading. By the way germany may be better informed than other countries but there is a downside because with more information in general there comes also much more misleading information.

Spiegel, Bild and Fokus magazines (and probably a few others) are known to feature untrustworthy journalism. I'm not saying that everything they write is wrong or with evil intentions, I'm just saying think critically. And I don't know if their recent journalistic works are worth the while, since I didn't want to read anything written by them for some time now. And I don't know if these magazines care if the truth comes out or not because I'm pretty sure they write their articles in a way that they can get away with it.

I wish, more people in Germany would watch those shows. But unfortunately people all around the globe are quite similar and they rather want their peace of mind than uncomfortable information. That is one reason why populistic movements like the AfD in Germany or the Rassemblement National in France are so popular.

13:16 , the "Dolchstoß" ist a reference to right wing Post WW I propaganda saying that Germany was about to win the war when they were "stabbed in the back" by "communists"

In germany, honesty has by far more value than being polite. Thats why germans are seen as "direkt" and "rude" compared to the US for example.

This Video from Die Anstalt is not really well informed...it is good and enterteining, but on the other hand, it lags much of information, wich causes, that the russion agression looks like its not so bad. Die Anstalt made a video after the full invasion, where its highlights its behavior and they apologised a little bit. First of all: Yes, there are in many eastern countrys people with Nazi insignia. And sometimes they are racist and awefull. But having this tatoos in russia, ukraine, aserbaidschan and co means often more somethink like: against the kommunism and against the russian politics and there is nothing more against like using this kind of insignia and language. its often not praising the holocaust or beeing really fan of nazi germany (even, if there are of course enough dumb heads, who still think so). second to say: if you compare the reallity which happened until today with the video, you will notice, that the western media of did a bad job, explained bad and some entertainment media wrote shit like they always do...but the majority of the media was right and still is. I like watching old youtube videos, because if you compare the past with the things we know now, you see how things went. In germany we say: the video aged badly :D

It's like the pro pseudoisraelite media war. Non satire on the holy land of Palestine: Anna Baltzer, if Americans knew, the empire files (also many other topics)

The nice thing, satire is protected by law :D. There were a couple of law suits in the past, but more or less they went nowhere. But one has to say, journalistic quality is rare in Germany. Now only the story counts and how many people you get to buy it. And you see what happens, if another media outlet is trying to shoot down the show, they are ridculed. "Die Anstalt" is probably the best satire shows on german TV. It exists already since eons. Generally there is not much they won't touch.

About the road toll thing... It was forbidden by the eu court but the CSU idiot signed the contracts before results was in for no reason and now Germany mist pay billions and we get ... Nothing no road toll will come we pay for nothing ... And that minister did not even resign ... Just a horrible gu so glad he's gone from government

9:50 I think that Andi Scheuer (CSU traffic minister) fucked up 243 million times. That is the amount of money our maut disaster costs us.

have a look at the older episodes with "Urban Priol" and "Georg Schramm" :-)

You asked around 14:35 (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W3YhNy_t-tk.html ) whether this is true. Here (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hnH10TfhkOQ.html at time stamp 36:09) is the part of the episode on which "Zeit" got an injunction against ZDF. You can translate the transcript automatically in English by youtube may be not that precise like translation by a human but at least enough to reconstruct the topic.

Well the show was before the russian invasion of Ukraine. Most (if not all?) of the comedians changed their view on that issue...

awesome that you discovered Die Anstalt now, that was the logical next step as it was for me ten years ago :) whatever people say, i love our public broadcasting and i am very proud of it.

They also had an episode later on where they talked about their own mistakes when the ukraine war got real. So they are even critical of themselfs.

Hello Mert, I hereby would like to let you know that at least one newspaper was trying to get rid of one episode of "Die Anstalt". It´s the one from 29th of April 2014. The newspaper "Die Zeit" went to the courts and lost. This is the Episode which I mentioned. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QQ-cYYvH3sg.html Have a good one and kind regards.

Wow, this really didn't age well at all. Too many of these jokes are based on Russian propaganda as we know today.

Being well informed in Germany and having the opportunity to make such satire, is this something good or bad? I mean, if the government forbids such things it means they fear us. That this is allowed to be published, especially in German state tv means, that they do not fear us at all and we lazy folks, in fear of losing our lifestyle, keep doing business as usual, even if we exactly know that our government is manipulating us.

Sadly satire is not like that anymore. Since two years they are silenced by cancel culture and political correctness.

Die Anstalt ist not mainly informing the people. You have to have the knowledge before you can understand satire.

There ist even a somewhat powerful gag going on here with the middle bloke with his leather jacket has GeStaPo as well as Kommissar vibes, the ranker as well as the General have WW1 uniforms. I'm pretty sure this is intentional. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

They made a special episode where they self reflected how wrong they were about Russia when the war broke out. They often defended Russia and bought into their propaganda of "NATO expansion being an aggressive move" and such so that episode was really important to make sense of it all. The invasion really opened many eyes.

This aged so poorly... especially when taking into account that it turned out that, Russia shot down the plane on purpose.

The CSU road toll for foreigners clashed with EU laws and will now likely cost the country hundreds of millions in damages to be paid to the companies that got contracts to implement it. It was clear from the start that that would be the result.

So sad they went mainstream and are now in line with propaganda.

Interesting to see how it aged. For example the air plane was shot down by Russia that they mentioned in the beginning

This Video aged Like milk... The Anstalt Made a new Video/ Episode about Russia, Putin, The Ukraine and themself. They also criticed themself One of my Favorite Episodes

If you liked this, you may also like Extra-3, a satire TV production from ARD/NDR (northern germans 3. TV program :) Thanks if I wouldn't watch your Reaction video I would have missed this "Die Anstalt" inner german information war play. PS: I discovered that german media press has interesting contra reporting with considerable critic from switzerland (like Daniele Ganser a historian now acting as part of the Peace movement, he warned early also about Russia vs.- Ucraine.

They got sued for this show but they won the Prozess and said nothing wrong 😊

You should watch the two shows by Die Anstalt after the new start of the war in 2022. Two of the best Shows ever, especially as they critized also themselves as Part of the pro-russian and anti-American Side in Germany in the Last 30 years.

Kinda eerie how satire became a reality though, given that Ruzzia did actually invade Ukraine in the end.

About the prohibited Episode: there was a defamation lawsuite against "Die Anstalt". It was the episode of 29. April 2014, where they unveiled the connection of some high ranking journalists to some interestgroups, challenging their ability to report unbiased. In the first lawsuit in Hamburg was a ruling, where the ZDF was prohibited to air this episode again or make it available on their mediathek. The lawsuite went to the next higher court and there hey basically one. The interesting thing in this case was the argument of the two journalists, whom claimed that their ability to do their jobs unbiased got ruined by false claims of this satire. On the other side was freedom of speech and strong protection of that good for the two comedians. The BGH ruled, at the end, that it is allowed in satire to show reality and even if some connections have not been depickted correctly, the two journalists cannot argue, that they are connected to some think tank outlets and thereby the satire delivered the right message. It has not to be hold against the account to be 100% correct. That aside, the Team of the anstalat (basicaly most of german satire) is very throroughly researched.

Die Anstalt ist tatsächlich das flagship deutscher Satire. Sie decken sehr viele Sachen auf und machen sich damit nicht gerade viele Freunde. Aber immerhin noch genug, damit die Sendung weiter geht. Ach, es ist schön in einem freien Land zu leben, noch...

By the way, after the start of the war last year, they released another take on the Ukraine conflict where they're pretty critical with their earlier position and where they kind of apologize for it. This is the German version, I haven't found a version with subtitles by now, though: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m2c_zX4FPI8.html

Here the part of the video that Die Zeit orderd to ban: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QQ-cYYvH3sg.html

What u need to know is that u can only talk about the truth in germany when its Satire. Thats why we have so many tv shows about political topics. When u dont pack the truth in Satire everyone will sue ur ass :/

9:15 Yes, the "Zeit" sued them for a clip in which they showed how German journalists are connected to lobby groups. The last bit of this video referred to that. Thats another great one to watch if its available in English.

To even better understand the pun about "Die Zeit". This "Newspaper" "Zeit" is part of the media-outlet "Springer" which biggest "newspaper" is actually the "Bild"... And pretty much all headlines (excluding the ones from "Spiegel") are from one or another "Springer"-paper... They publish mostly boulevard. and some computergames-related magazines.

About the injunction mentioned in the video: Yes, it's true. The 'Zeit' took legal measures to prevent 'Die Anstalt' from airing some very harsh truths about some of their higher ups and their not so clean and not so impartial and not so objective involvement in certain ambiguous organizations, etc. 'Die Anstalt' and the 'ZDF' went to court over this and they won their case and they were allowed to air the episode in question and offer it through their website as catch-up TV. It's revealed in a later episode (around christmas, I think, as the winning statement was presented as a gift if my memory serves me right). This show has taught me so much about politics, economics and all the corrupt and/or hateful things happening in the shadows of my own country and worldwide. They also did a show focussing on the Football World Championship 2014 in Brazil, revealing the corruption of the FIFA and their most prominent/powerful/questionable figures as well as the intolerable conditions the sponsors (Adidas, Nike, etc) have their employees work under while barely paying a livable wage. It certainly broadened my horizon as I would have never even thought of worrying about certain topics.

Meh, it's one of the weaker episodes, content-wise. The Malaysian plane was shut down by a Buk rocket that Russia had sent to Ukraine because their black op "rebels" were losing, and once the "rebel" leadership realized it was not an Ukrainian plane, they quickly deleted all their posts about succesfully hitting a plane and spun it like it was a Ukrainian hit. Also, the Ukrainians tried to save the ones in the house but were met with gunfire (so more like Darwin Award...).

you said in your video people nowadays have better tools to fight propaganda (social media), but to be honest i think propaganda nowadays is an even bigger problem than before.. people seem to have a general distrust of mainstream media, but at the same time they pick social media personalities, whom they choose to believe, and then they believe them without questioning and again people start to consume information only from the same sources and often from the same political/ideological bubble promoted by social media algorithms based on what the person has watched before... and after "picking a side" all this stuff is not questioned anymore but blindly agreed to so the propaganda bubbles people end up in nowadays are even stronger than back then, because social media actively feeds people the same stuff they have watched before...i think that's also the reason why, especially online, opinions and believes seem to get more extreme day by day.... it feels like moderate opinions disappear and get replaced by extremes... maybe social media paints a wrong picture when it comes to this and we just don't hear moderate voices enough - they are probably not polarizing enough which most likely equals less views and less outrage and hence other outlets don't use them to spin their own narrative around moderate content.. but if that's the case then this is already dangerous in itself, because people might start to believe these extreme opinions are normalcy and get pulled into them more easily

Brilliant! But I can confirm in Germany there are not more informed people. Some people watch this satire (the few who made it beyond Netflix and big brother type of entertainment) but then only a subset of them gets enabled to “keep” asking the “tough” questions beyond the topics covered in that hour of the “Anstalt”

I guess the guy in the middle should characterize Goebbels. Minister of Propaganda of the Nazis.

if you want to know more, react to this too: Артём Гришанов - Лишь бы не было войны / Don't need war / War in Ukraine (English subtitles) Артём Гришанов - Закройте свои рты / Shut up your mouth / War in Syria (English subtitles) Артём Гришанов - Солдат / Soldier / War in Ukraine (English subtitles)

Bild is to clever, to make a fuss about Die Anstalt. Their readers are unlikely to watch that show im the first place. Why risk the Streisand effect, if you cam continue to lie to your readers anyway?

Concerning Brexit - and the idiocracy of it all, especialy the UK's side - I wanted to recommend to you CGP Grey's video "The EU's 'SECRET' Brexit Negotiation EXPOSED 🙄", but I just found that this is now a channel members only video... Too bad

The Anstalt had an episode about Julian Assange and Wikileaks that was done like the series Sherlock. I liked it very much, unfortunately there are no subtitles for it on RU-vid.

In germany we got stuff called "Kunstfreiheit" and "Meinungsfreiheit" (Freedom of Art and Freedom of Speach) and satire is broadly protected by this two rights of freedom. Therefore it's pretty hard to surpress people like "Die Anstalt", "Die Heute Show", "Extra 3" and many other satire programs as well as some very good youtube channels. The main reason why satire gets problems is when they claim something that's just wrong or attacks groups and single people in specific, very mean ways.

8:55 - error in the subtitle translation: The CSU does NOT belong to the government but to the opposition! Edit: Clarification: At THAT TIME the CSU was indeed part of the government, but no more since end of 2020.

Love "Die Anstallt". They are pretty good and critize a lot of good things. But unfortunatly, this time they were wromng. The media coverage was onesided because the conflict was onesided. the russians did invade Ukraine in 2014 and they shot down the MH317.

They use the optics of WWII era. The sitting guy wears a uniform similar to a WWI picture of AH. The guy in the phone looks like the staff in the Führerbunker, e.g. And the guy with the leather coat is SS/Gestapo alike... This gives a historic background for this sort of propaganda...

It's in public TV, however, private media companies forced the state TV to depublish all of its content after a while from their internet sites. That is, we are forced to pay for the content but then have no right to watch it indefinitely - unless we download and save it locally.

Max Uthoff (the relaxed guy) is always on the little stage in our town to preset a preview of his upcoming solo program and I have the honor to be the tecnician at these occasions. He is a genuis guy but has a really high pace. You need to be highly alert to follow his monologue.

oh, now that i think of it. you may also find "Entweder Broder Die Deutschland-Safari" interesting .... a kind of satiric road trip of 2 .... characters ;-)

It should be said that the people in this show later said that they were mistaken in their assessment after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and did a lot of self critique and self reflection in their show.

All of this is real, always. Also, Bild is the german version of "the Sun".

Besides that, how do you conclude that People do not fall as quickly for Propaganda now? Is it just because they read some Facebook posts? I would argue ultimately, the opposite is true; not only do they fall for propaganda more often than before, but they do it for more idiotic takes because they assume that since it is not coming from a traditional media outlet, then it is not Propaganda but neutral information. For example, people keep mentioning Nazis in Ukraine as a valid and relevant subject. Still, Zelensky is of Jewish origin! or throw references to Stefan Bander around without context or discussion. Putin's revindication of Russian Nazis like Ivan Ylyin. The only context in which that makes any sense is if you take the Russian definition of Nazi as accurate, and forget that WW2 started with a pact between Nazi Germany and the USSR. Or on a different topic, a lot of people believe that COVID-19 can be treated with horse dewormer.

Yes, you don't see something like that on English and US TV, but you don't see anything like that in Germany either!!

I really hate bad subtitles. The subtitle at 14:32 reads: (The newspaper 'Time' (Die Zeit) got nan injunction against ZDF which prohibiited airing an earlier episode of the 'Anstalt', that questioned the impartiality of the publisher of 'Time'). This is confusing. It should read (The german newspaper 'Die Zeit' got an injunction against ZDF, which prohibiited airing an earlier episode of the 'Anstalt', that questioned the impartiality of the publisher of 'Die Zeit') The translation of the newspapers title into englisch can lead to confusion with the UKs Times or the TIME magazin in the US. By the way the 'prohibited' episode was aired in full before this episode, after a german court of law, discarded the injunction on the basis of freedom of expression. My peronal opinion on this episode is this: A really good peace on the power of mass media and it's often biassed and irresponsible conduct with conflicts.

Not so fun story, since you asked about the foreigners road toll: the CSU and in particular former Minister of Traffic Andreas Scheuer planned an autobahn toll only for foreigners (by lowering vehicle taxes for german people), while critics warned about clashing EU legislation. Minister Scheuer nonetheless pushed through with his proposed law and already signed contracts with 2 operators containing clauses about potential damages, without approving the legal situation of the endeavor. One thing led to another and in 2019 the European Court of Justice declared nonconformity to EU law, because of discrimination against foreigners. Only 5 weeks ago the saga ended with a settlement between the german government and the operators of 243M €. It is still unclear, whether Andreas Scheuer can be held accountable, the current government is discussing setting up a commission of inquiry on the matter.