Lately a lot of folks (including us) have been doing the fascism comparisons.

The questions we ponder this week: How long it takes for fascism to fully dig its roots in, how varied is the opposition along the way, and what role does the media play?

Show Notes

165: Outrage Machine (w/Tobias Rose-Stockwell)

16 October 1919 | Hitler Archive

Konrad Heiden 

Fritz Gerlich, publicist and prophet – how did he resist the Nazis? 

Fritz Gerlich 

Nazi Germany’s Schriftleitergesetz: The End of Freedom of the Press - Arolsen Archives

The illegal press – Verzetsmuseum  

The Liberal Media Always Fails Against Fascism — Robert Evans 

Can a news media that doesn’t really oppose fascism ever cover it well?

Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post” | Los Angeles Review of Books

The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

Fascist-Sympathizing Newspaper Barons Were the Blueprint for Today’s Right-Wing Media

Media's Failure in Times of Crisis: Election Coverage in the Interwar Period

How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler | Smithsonian

How Britain's Nazi-loving press baron made the case for Hitler | The Times of Israel

Wahl-Jorgensen, K. (2016). Is there a “postmodern turn” in journalism? In C. Peters and M. Broersma (Eds), Rethinking Journalism (pp. 97-111). London: Routledge.

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