Lying press

And also, I think, you know, also with the Internet, it's... not being rediscussed.

What can we say tackling this about fake news? Fake news is actually something that Adolf Hitler, it comes from the concept of Lügenpresse, which is the direct translation into fake news.

And now Donald Trump is using this again.

And the important thing is that we who think about media and what media really does, like the media that Donald Trump, for example, is controlling, we have to call this not fake news, but we have to call this alternative facts because these are mostly lies.

It came from the National Socialists.

It's called Lügenpresse, the lying press.

Fake news.

The enemy of the people, that comes from a German term.

When the Allied forces defeated the Nazis, the reestablishment of the free press was seen as the best course of action to re-educate the German public.

But throughout German history, the term Lügenpress or a lying press was used to undermine the credibility of journalists.

Turning our attention to the United Kingdom, their tactics did not include completely controlling the media, but rather intimidating them through lawsuits.

A journalist or publication in the 1800s England could be targeted with charges of blasphemy, defamation or seditious libel.

Granted, the reporting on troop movements is not something the press reports on because they have ethics guidelines to do no harm, and the government does not allow them to do that, the only form of prior restraint that is permitted.

These rules Hegseth put in place were overturned as unconstitutional by a federal district court judge in New York Times v.

Department of Defense, determining that the rules fell under viewpoint discrimination and censorship.

There are promises to appeal the decision, but the journalists who had their credentials revoked have since had them reinstated.

The language of discrediting has been remarkably consistent across history.

Hitler called the German press Lügenpresse, the lying press.

Mussolini called critical journalists defeatists and enemies of Italy.

Stalin accused reporters of being wreckers and saboteurs.

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I think the fact that there is such a gray area between, you know, uh, the Internet and the news media is what allows someone like Donald Trump to call out against the fake news, um, which I can't help but, uh, think of parallels between the way that someone like Adolf Hitler referred to the media, the Lügenpresse.

Um, I'm just wondering if you see any of- of those parallels in terms of, like, the state of journalism and if some of these issues are what's allowing Donald Trump to kind of cast them as like a, a, an enemy of the people.

Definitely.