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In Trump's assault on the media, disturbing flashbacks to the Third Reich

JL;DR SUMMARY Terrence Petty draws unsettling parallels between President Trump's actions to control media narratives and the Nazi regime's suppression of press freedom. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TrumpNazi GermanyJournalismPress FreedomAssociated PressMedia ControlHistorical ParallelsWhite House Press PoolMaga MediaMedia Intimidation

Places mentioned

Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"Trumps press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, dropped a bomb on Washington, D.C. press traditions"
Berlin, Germany
"Nine decades ago, in Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, this was the drill at government press conferences."
Ukraine
"That question came from Brian Glenn, a reporter for Real Americas Voice and boyfriend of Marjorie Taylor Greene. It was also Glenn who, during Trumps tumultuous White House meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy,"
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"which is about a socialist newspapers valiant but ultimately futile battles with the Nazi leader during the Weimar era."
Germany
"I worked for The Associated Press for 35 years, ten of them, 1987-97, as a Germany-based foreign correspondent."
East Berlin, Berlin, Germany
"During my trips into Communist East Germany I was aware of being followed by the Stasi."
Israel
"the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war,"

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