East Germans didn't use Western TV's for news but for entertainment
Believers in information empowerment would have expected that East Germans would be watching news from West Germany in order to know what's really happening. But East Germans were actually turning to western television only to watch soap operas: Miami Vice or Dynasty; news being the least popular
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East Germans didn't use Western TV's for news but for entertainment
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