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Paul Bassett Davies Jul 27, 2024

TRUMP: I love dictators. I want to be a dictator.
MEDIA: Are Trump's policies a cause for concern?
TRUMP: I will abolish democracy.
MEDIA: Is it unfair to portray Trump as authoritarian?
TRUMP: Read my lips: I am a fascist.
MEDIA: Hmm, only time will tell for sure.

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Nicole Parsons Jul 28, 2024

@thewritertype

Media has colluded to promote fascism on behalf of the wealthiest before; in the 1930's the six biggest newspaper magnates worked together to further fascism.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2022-04-19/newspaper-axis-six-press-barons-who-enabled-hitler

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/06/pages-their-newspapers-they-downplayed-hitlers-threat/

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-newspaper-axis-six-press-barons-who-enabled-hitler-power-without-responsibility-1.4856354

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bad-news-for-the-jews-how-six-us-and-uk-media-moguls-aided-the-nascent-nazi-regime/

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256420/the-newspaper-axis/

The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

Olmsted focuses on the role played by Western media moguls in whitewashing Adolf Hitler’s actions and calling for appeasement.

Foreign Affairs

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Paul Bassett Davies

@Npars01 I’ll check out that book. I’ve read a little bit about Western media enabling or sanitising the rise of Hitler and fascism (including the shameful Daily Mail, of course). And the role of the German press in the 1930s is an extraordinary story of cynicism and stupidity; the hubris of press barons and other industrialists who believed they could control events is amazing. But if history teaches us anything it’s that history doesn’t teach us anything.