Thank You for this response @dwinblood!

The title almost sounds like I forced you to write about the topic. In that case, I am glad I did! :) While you also tell your own personal story, you are able to tackle the problems with TV and especially TV News much more wholistic than I did. A lot of points, you make, were on my mind, but I could not really fit them in and I also doubt my ability to write a really long piece and have people actually read to the end. Well, it shows the gap of experience in writing articles between us I guess ;).

On the topic: for me it is always interesting to see how people can have totally different experience and still end up with a lot of shared conclusions and values. In my life there was never a real turning point... well maybe when I heard about socialism and the fights against the bourgeoisie in history class, how the communist party leaders Liebknecht and Luxemburg got sold out by the social democrats. My family was also social democratic voters (SPD). And well I went further left because of what I saw social democrats do: nothing, unless it is about saving their very own ass. And yeah, if you are radical left you don't trust media, it's just a given.

I will do a (hopefully) short comment on your other video about labels because i somehow ended up talking again about my leftist background.