>>We had that technology of shaping the public opinion since Sloba's times. He also specialized in never showing the overall picture of the square on his TV Bastille (aka state TV), but always shooting with long tele lenses into whatever meager crowd he managed to muster. OTOH, when the opposition gathers between 100 and 500 thousand people, his cameras show the place as it was about two hours before the beginning...
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>Oh I think the people are on there own, but they just gather a bit more organized. In every german town the numbers are diminishing while growing in Dresden. Coincidence?
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>Our state independent TV could not be compared to your eastern state TV. :)
>We do the trick just one level up on both. :D

Now please, the hoopla about the just-for-TV done shots of the politicians marching for the deaths in Paris would not have surfaced if done in former east. Or is this just a slur on french TV?

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