The Nazi Forefather Of Fox News (And The Rest Of Conservative Media)

[Nevilledog]

https://oliverwillis.substack.com/p/the-nazi-forefather-of-fox-news-and


This past year I read the book Julius Streicher: Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-Semitic Newspaper Der Stürmer. As I read it, it was impossible not to see the parallels between this horrible man’s techniques and actions in spreading antisemitism in Germany and the output of Fox News and their conservative media cohorts (Newsmax, One America News, the Washington Times, the Daily Caller, right-wing radio, and all of their cohorts).

Streicher was so dangerous and effective that he was convicted for the crime of inciting genocide at the Nuremberg trials and was executed via hanging in 1946. Unlike the better known Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, Streicher was not a part of the official Nazi leadership and was kept at an arms length by Adolf Hitler.

But Hitler loved Streicher’s newspaper, Der Stürmer (The Stormer/Attacker) and encouraged its distribution throughout Germany. In fact, spreading the vile antisemitism in the paper was so important to the Third Reich that copies of the paper were put in town squares in glass enclosures to ensure that even those who did not subscribe to it would still be able to read its contents.

Certainly Streicher was not the first person in the world to spread hate. The Nazis learned so much about how to do what they did to Jewish people by studying what the American government has done to groups here at both the federal and local level by discriminating against Blacks, Latinos, Asians, LGBTQ, Jewish people and other groups. But Streicher used mass media to spread hate and demonization, publishing his newspaper from 1923 until Germany was smashed by the allies in 1945, working as a willful ally of the Holocaust that killed over 6 million innocent Jewish people.

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[DFW]

1. Lenin monopolized the media

Hitler and Göbbels UTILIZED the media. They grasped how much power it meant to have it all in their hands. Their socialist successors tried the same, but couldn't escape geography. East Germany never overcame that their population could hear West German radio, and later, get West German TV. The most rigid, orthodox supporters of the East German regime were the ones who lived in those few enclaves where one could not get West German media.

[underpants]

2. Two more paragraphs that really hit the mark

Fox News does this all the time. Fox tells its viewers that the normal, traditional American life they love is under threat. Under threat from liberals, immigrants, transgender people, anyone who is even slightly different from the white, Christian, straight male that is the central target of Fox News programming. The network and the rest of the conservative media infrastructure sees this message as job one, every day and it is relentlessly on message in this respect.

“They” are always out to get you, conservative media tells viewers/readers/listeners, and to stop “them,” the right-wing media tells them they must vote and to be aware that “they” are also subverting the voting process if conservative candidates lose.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. FOX News' Roger Ailes was a Big Fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite NAZI filmmaker.

The Fourth’ Reich’s tool for the controlling of minds.



According to the biography, The Loudest Voice In The Room: How The Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News — And Divided A Country:

Ailes was “a big fan” of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s notorious favorite filmmaker—not for her Nazi ideology but for her cinematic talent as a propagandist. “Ailes was especially taken by Riefenstahl’s use of camera angles.”

SOURCE: http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/01/extraordinary-revelations-about-roger.html

Terry Gross of Fresh Air interviewed Gabriel Sherman, the guy who wrote, the book.

This is the kind of information that Fox viewers might appreciate knowing before watching their television screens.

Something everyone should know: Roger Ailes and the Big Money has been in bed with Big NAZI for a long time.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

7. I think it is fair to say that most students of cinema respect the cinematic genius

of Leni Riefenstahl. Her eye and her talent are indisputable.

Unfortunately she used her gifts in the service of evil.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. So did Roger Ailes.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

9. As do most students of cinema, even those who are repelled by her service to the Nazis.

[AdamGG]

15. Really great documentary about Riefenstahl

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl. Fascinating film, especially for cinephiles. Roger Ebert put it on his list of the 10 best films of the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Horrible_Life_of_Leni_Riefenstahl

[Just A Box Of Rain]

16. Yes, it is an excellent documentary.

I happened to see it twice in the theaters, once for an Academy documentary screening and another (that if memory serves was though the AFI) where the director Ray Müller spoke and asked questions following the screening.

Been a very long time since I've seen this documentary. Excellent film.

[Aristus]

3. One of Streicher's interrogators after the war summarized him like this (paraphrasing).

"He reminds one of the type of man who hides in the bushes in public parks seeking to molest little children."

Not at all surprising.

[TigressDem]

4. "THEY are out to get you" "WE can do this together" WHICH IS TRULY the stronger message?

The first is a call to victim hood and revenge.

The second is a call to DO THE WORK that needs to be done.


SO MUCH EASIER to tear things down than build them up.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. The Storm

It's no coincidence that Q-Anon uses common Neo Nazo imagery and terms. The coming Storm that Q-Anon cult members constantly talk about is taken directly from Nazi propaganda. The largest Neo Nazi website in the US used to be Stormfront.

I don't think the public has an appreciation for just how much the MAGA movement was purposely modeled on Nazism. They literally used Nazi literature as their blue print.

[moniss]

10. Another aspect that is

not as well known is the use of hardware. Most people have probably never heard of the Hitler radio. It was called the Volksempfanger. Pardon me for not putting the umlaut over the a. It was purposely made to be a very cheap receiver to buy and the programming was full of his speeches and party propaganda. By 1941 about 65% of German households had one. Although the radio could receive the BBC the penalty was death if you were caught listening. So the Nazis subsidized the hardware that was necessary to assist injecting their 24/7 propaganda to the people.

[appalachiablue]

12. Tx for the reminder about evil Nazi radio prop. & dangers of listening to the BBC.

[Initech]

11. Conservative media is becoming an inherent danger to this country.

The sooner we wake up to the danger and damage that this shit is doing to this country, the better.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Musk has unbanned Daily Stormer editor Andrew Anglin, who was kicked off Twitter in 2013

"They're back!"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217427699

[Nevilledog]

14. Yup.... Just saw that.