Eric Boehlert: The AP's colossal campaign failure

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25. More from NYT on the AP and the Nazis.

In March 2016, a German historian, Harriet Scharnberg, argued that The Associated Press was complicit in allowing the Nazis to “portray a war of extermination as a conventional war.” Her research prompted the review, which was written by Larry Heinzerling, an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a former editor at the agency.

While the Nazi regime cracked down on the local and international press in 1933, The Associated Press was able to report in Germany until the United States entered the war in late 1941....

In 1935, the news organization complied with a Nazi edict by firing or reassigning six employees the Germans considered to be Jewish, the review said. It made the “difficult decision” because it believed “it was critical for A.P. to remain in Germany and gather news and photos during this crucial period,” the agency said in a statement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/business/media/associated-press-nazi-germany.html

All those great photos of Hitler and other German events were brought to us by the AP, free of violence carried on against the Jews. Sure, the AP defends its photo exchanges as necessary, though they were censored, but enough right wing Germans worked for AP to make its defense about "objectivity" a bit disingenuous.