“There is no such thing as objective information, Zero. Journalism is, after all, a human creation.”
Diethard Ried Quotes
2 quotes from Code Geass, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
Defected from Britannian broadcasting to a terrorist cell because the story was better there. The only member of the resistance with no politics at all.
“At times the life of a single man is worth more than that of a million, I thought that'd be common sense to a soldier.”
It circulates as ruthless clarity and it is a producer's line, not a philosopher's. What he means is that one photogenic figure moves an audience further than a statistic, which is a claim about broadcasting rather than value. The series is careful about this: the man who says it is the only member of the resistance with no politics at all, and his loyalty follows the ratings until it kills him.
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The Black Knights win as much airtime as ground, and Diethard is the character who makes that literal. He defects from Britannian broadcasting to a terrorist cell because the story is better there, and he says so without embarrassment. Every one of Zero's miracles requires a camera pointed at it by someone who has already decided what the footage means, and this is that man describing his method.