In case you were wondering, the 88-year-old 'Literature Pope' of Germany, longtime critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, thinks German television is crap. At Saturday's German Television Prize proceedings, he decided to tell everyone responsible for German TV what he thought, on live TV, as they tried to give him a lifetime achievement prize. Very exciting! I'll comment later as time permits, but for now, here's the video of his "rejection speech."
Incredible! Could there ever be anything like it in the US?
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However right MRR might be on today’s german tv, one should probably bear in mind (see Henryk M. Broder on SPON, G) that he quite fits into your “Kulturschaffende who bite the hand that feeds them” category, as he still profits decisively (e.g. book sales) from his tv fame gained here … (G)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literarisches_Quartett
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