What the AP s Collaboration With the Nazis Should Teach Us About Reporting the News – Tablet Magazine
A paper last year by the German historian Harriet Scharnberg titled The A and P of Propaganda and published in Studies in Contemporary History makes the case that beginning in the mid-1930s, the AP s photo office in Germany made compromise after compromise to keep reporting under Nazi rule, obeying successive orders from the Hitler regime until it ended up as a Nazi information arm in all but name. Remaining in Berlin after its competitors departed in 1935 allowed the AP to serve as a key channel for German propaganda, she wrote, an arrangement the New York-based agency was eager to preserve even if it meant removing all of its Jewish photographers in keeping with Nazi race laws, for example, and even if it meant issuing a statement to the official SS magazine swearing that the photo bureau was pure Aryan.
I forget what the stories were regarding the AP and Hamas.