As the “marine corps of journalism,” the Associated Press, turns 170 years old this year, new questions are being raised by some historians about the news organization’s credibility when it comes to covering totalitarian states, including Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
According to German historian Harriet Scharnberg, the AP made a mutually beneficial pact with the Hitler regime in order to retain access to Germany throughout the Holocaust and World War II. It reportedly did so by adhering to the Schriftleitergesetz, or editor’s law, by agreeing not to publish anything that could be “calculated to weaken the strength of …read more
Source: The Blaze
