What are they on about?

[Stacy Heydon]

Interview starts at 4.16.
Give a short precis of their main argument.
The winner gets a jar of vitamin C.

[Charlie O.]

I wonder how accurate the translation is...

My interpretation: "Television", perhaps standing in for the mainstream media, is anti-revolutionary, and so likes to use musicians (who tend to be verbally inarticulate) as "spokespeople" for anti-establishment movements because they can easily be made to look simple-minded, thus discrediting the whole movement.

[rayge]

As musicians, they prefer to express themselves through music, and find that the formats required by TV and other mass media, where they are are asked to deconstruct and express verbally in easily assimilable soundbites what are very complex ideas about economics, culture and society (broadly left-wing ideas I am assuming) effectively neuters and trivializes their art. I suspect the translation from German (I only read the subtitles, did not listen) might have left a bit to be desired subtlety-wise.

[Stacy Heydon]

Both very good answers. I may have to buy two jars of vitamin C now.

["BING E BONG"]

Christ they were boring.