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what about those tv channels that endlessly repeat documentaries about hitler and that whole era
are they history / education programmes, programmes glorifying that regime for those right wing cunts to fap over or just channels under the murdoch broadcasting organisation so standard fayre for them lining up with the bosses politics allegedly .
I occasionally dip into the "Yesterday" channel on Freeview, which certainly falls into that category. 2 things on this...
- Some of the things they endlessly repeat (e.g. The World At War) have real value. The World At War actually provides a realistic counter to the jingoistic portrayal of WWII that you see in the right wing press. For example, regular contributions from members of the British public for whom the war was a recent memory and who made it very clear that they were very suspicious of Churchill as a politician.
- Whatever value the few decent (and old) bits of content have, most of the newer stuff is sensationalist or highly slanted bilge. Yesterday channel has a whole stable of programmes all of which use the same talking heads with dubious qualifications, really just reading from scripts.
On the other hand, PBS and the Smithsonian Channel have consistently high quality output, some of it from UK broadcasters, about a much wider range of subjects (not just wars and not just WWII). Which means that when the WWII content does show up, it's in a much better context and isn't just there to a) lend credibility to the dross around it b) stoke the war fantasies of most of the regular viewers.
- Some of the things they endlessly repeat (e.g. The World At War) have real value. The World At War actually provides a realistic counter to the jingoistic portrayal of WWII that you see in the right wing press. For example, regular contributions from members of the British public for whom the war was a recent memory and who made it very clear that they were very suspicious of Churchill as a politician.
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what about those tv channels that endlessly repeat documentaries about hitler and that whole era
are they history / education programmes, programmes glorifying that regime for those right wing cunts to fap over or just channels under the murdoch broadcasting organisation so standard fayre for them lining up with the bosses politics allegedly .
personally i'd get rid of any programme like that for good, we all know what they did, it must be offensive for some people to have those programmes continually on their tv's