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09/06/2005 Entry: "APPD Won against Public TV"
The APPD TV spot was aired UNCENSORED last night at 10:28 PM, just before the beginning of the main news feature ("tagesthemen", of that man who is a famous German or European institution: Ulrich Wickert, anchorman, author, philosopher, francophile and thus a gourmet; but last night anchorwoman Anne Will had been in charge), as the Higher Administrative Court in Münster had decided in an summary proceeding in favour of the party, stating that an evident violation of human dignity and an infringement of the protection of young persons regulations were not present, that although the people in the spot are showing animalistic-instinctive behaviour, the boundaries beyond which there would be punishable pornography and similar had not been transgressed by the mere depiction. The last spot will be aired on Monday, September 12, at 09:40 PM on ZDF before the "heute-journal" (which is the counterpart of ARD's "tagesthemen"). Again at a time when children, that are not punks, are in bed already. Or their parents... ;-) The typical mainstream family man looks at the news at 08:00 PM, not at the later more elaborate editions! This good news might make my mirroring of the uncensored spot obsolete, but not everyone interested will have seen it on TV or could record it to have a closer look, so I keep it till further notice. Also, the visitors reading the previous post at a later date will not want to find a broken link in it. Other sites have mirrored the spot too (see full list). This helps to reduce the excessive traffic load for the site of the party. A load balancing device has been installed. I's like with power in democracy as opposed to more outright dictatorship. :-)APPD Won against Public TV
So the German courts are better than the public media. The latter are closer to power.
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