In 2016, before Trump was even sworn in as President, the Columbia Journalism Review compared the rise of “fake news” and the loss of conventional media’s authority to Weimar Germany. While the article is laced with stereotypical images of Weimar’s supposedly “decadent atmosphere”, there are some interesting insights: “The instruments of democracy were appropriated by anti-democratic forces and used to undermine the democratic institutions that had made them available.”
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Jochen Hung (August 24, 2018). The media’s Weimar moment? Weimar Studies Network. Retrieved January 18, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/vbow