It's kinda of scary, how history repeats itself.
When Donald Trump started demonizing America's established media, calling them 'lying" and "rigged", his ever loyal followers naturally goose-stepped to his claims. Now, his little Trumpsters are claiming, that any media that doesn't walk lock-step with their beliefs is "fake news". To them, far right hyper-partisan media sets the standard of integrity, even those those same resources have misrepresented established facts.
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In the interwar years the term was used both by communists against the “bourgeois Lügenpresse” and by the Nazis against—no surprise—the allegedly Jewish and Bolshevik media. Once the Nazis seized power and took control of the domestic press, they naturally stopped calling it a Lügenpresse. Instead Hitler and Goebbels once again applied it to the foreign press—for instance, for reporting the 1938 Kristallnacht.
After 1945 West Germans wisely shunned the word. The East Germans were less inhibited: it was now the West German media that became the capitalist and fascist Lügenpresse. In the reunited Germany the term made a comeback among neo-Nazi and right-wing groups. Since 2014 it has been a favourite chant at demonstrations by PEGIDA, a xenophobic movement that is centred on the eastern city of Dresden. Some mobs have become physically aggressive against journalists—39 such attacks were counted last year.
http://www.economist.com/news/europ...ous-word-americas-alt-right-learns-speak-nazi
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What's next, the sig heil salute?
When Donald Trump started demonizing America's established media, calling them 'lying" and "rigged", his ever loyal followers naturally goose-stepped to his claims. Now, his little Trumpsters are claiming, that any media that doesn't walk lock-step with their beliefs is "fake news". To them, far right hyper-partisan media sets the standard of integrity, even those those same resources have misrepresented established facts.
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In the interwar years the term was used both by communists against the “bourgeois Lügenpresse” and by the Nazis against—no surprise—the allegedly Jewish and Bolshevik media. Once the Nazis seized power and took control of the domestic press, they naturally stopped calling it a Lügenpresse. Instead Hitler and Goebbels once again applied it to the foreign press—for instance, for reporting the 1938 Kristallnacht.
After 1945 West Germans wisely shunned the word. The East Germans were less inhibited: it was now the West German media that became the capitalist and fascist Lügenpresse. In the reunited Germany the term made a comeback among neo-Nazi and right-wing groups. Since 2014 it has been a favourite chant at demonstrations by PEGIDA, a xenophobic movement that is centred on the eastern city of Dresden. Some mobs have become physically aggressive against journalists—39 such attacks were counted last year.
http://www.economist.com/news/europ...ous-word-americas-alt-right-learns-speak-nazi
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What's next, the sig heil salute?
