Thomas Erdbrink’s New RTL Series: Challenging Western Perspectives on Hostile Regimes

At least they are not limited by the Western perspective!

(we’re also expecting a lot from Gerard Joling’s brand new soap, ed.)

Thomas Erdbrink will make a series for RTL in which he will be “taking a fresh look at regimes that the Western world considers hostile. “ Call us nit-pixers, call us vinegar-pissers, call us sharp-shooters, call us whiners, call us posers, call us whatever you want, at your service, but we still beyond this an expression in the happy announcement from yesterday (so before rocket attack) of the new season of RTL in our favorite media newspaper AD (also appeared here in here on) stumble. Because of the last series of Thomas Erdbrink who was in Iran and Afghanistan for the VPRO (as well as a boring exchange with Zomergasten in which he even appeared a little stupid and illiterate compared to a famous airhead like Wilfried de Jong) and he would not we would be surprised if he could show there again, otherwise it won’t be Japan or Singapore.

Now you can say a lot about the regimes in Iran and Afghanistan, for example you can say that they are considered hostile by the Western world. And hey. Seriously, that’s not true. The Western world – of which RTL is a part anyway, of course, if an alien landed here on earth and asked us ‘what is the Western world anyway?’ then we would advise him/her/them to watch RTL4 non-stop for three hours on a random Tuesday afternoon, then you’ve seen it pretty much in terms of the Western world and you’ll get the first time -fly back to Trisolaris immediately – actually seeing the regimes in Iran and Afghanistan as hostile. The Western world does that, including us, because these regimes are enemies of the Western world.

Actually, last night Erdbrink joined in person at Renze boasting that he had turned down a job presenting at Bar Laat because he really wanted to work at RTL, and that he brought a video from his previous series from Afghanistan, where girls could go to school under Taliban rule, and now they are not allowed to leave the house at all. To the people behind the RTL news department: the regimes that do that are our enemies. If you want to take a neutral position in the debate about whether to send girls to school and write that the Western world considers these types of arrangements hostile, that is allowed, after its after all, we are here in the Western world. . But it is not a new view.