Articles: The November Referendum on the Liberal Media
On March 33, 1933, newly-minted Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels addressed German journalists.
On March 33, 1933, newly-minted Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels addressed German journalists.
"You should obviously get your information here, but you should also get your instructions. You should know not only what is happening but also what the Government is thinking and how you can most usefully explain this to the people. We want to have a press that works with the Government, just as the Government wants to work with the press." (Bytwerk, p. 91)By 1943, Goebbels' attitude toward the press had shifted.
"Any decent journalist with any feeling of honor in his bones simply cannot stand for the way he is handled by the press department of the Reich government. Journalists are sat on as through there were still in grade school. Naturally this will have very serious consequences for the future of journalism. Any man who still has a residue of honor will be very careful not to become a journalist." (p. 104)In the Marxist-Leninist regime of the GDR, a journalist described the status of his profession in 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell.
"We had no status either with the population or in the party apparatus.... We were seen by the entire party apparatus as ink lackeys, as people to whom one gave orders. We were not taken seriously. People said we were the court fools of the nation" (Bytwerk, p. 105)
