By: Paul Desailly

Paul Desailly — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 03:13:17 +0000

Is there a media organisation on earth, Rahel, devoid of national bias, self-promotion, moralizing etc? The Beeb and Aunty and VOA ain’t exceptions when it comes to jobs, cars and money staying in the mother land. Those wily Brits might envisage a resurrection of their own car industry,at the expense of Germany’s, not to mention what’s going thru the minds of those eloquent expounders of PR in Citroen, Fiat, Volvo etc and in their respective national media. Even Mao didn’t trust his own media flagship, especially in the early days of the regime: “They get the date right!” he once remarked ‘avuncularly’ before unleashing “Let a hundred flowers bloom”.

The size of the fine envisaged by the authorities in America, or should that read ‘in Detroit’, that I saw in one news paper, made me think Washington plans to pay off the national debt to China via Wolfsburg. Mumma mia! It ain’t like Chancellor Merkel’s benevolent Germany is moving for: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer”. Holy cow, why cripple a kindly nation like modern Germany that reaches out to refugees for the misdeeds of a few leaders at VW.

‘a monolingual English-speaking Australian recently cited the Audi-slogan ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ to me when he discovered that I was German.” He probably just liked you and was thinking of something to say; maybe he even knew more German than he let on and had a broad understanding of ‘vorsprung’ unrelated to things technical or technological.

Amike via

Paulo

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