“Radio as the Eighth Great Power”: Joseph Goebbels

[McCamy Taylor]

Members of the press, listen up, please. The cabal of extremely wealthy people who have deprived Americans of work have set their sights on your jobs. How do I know? I have read their playbook.

Napoleon spoke of the “press as the seventh great power.”

snip

The radio will be for the twentieth century what the press was for the nineteenth century.

snip

It goes without saying that the National Socialist revolution, which is modern and intent on action, as well as the popular upheaval we have led, must change abstract and lifeless methods in the radio. The old regime was content simply to fill empty offices or change the faces, without however changing the spirit and content of public life. We on the other hand intend a principled transformation in the worldview of our entire society, a revolution of the greatest possible extent that will leave nothing out, changing the life of our nation in every regard.

We have used our power in the last six months to carry out this transformation.
snip
It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio...

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb56.htm

If radio is the eighth great power, then television is the ninth. Right now, we are witnessing another fascist revolution. In 1932, the Nazi’s message was “Bread and Freedom”---even as they conspired to take away the freedom of the German people and feed them bombs, not bread. In 2010, the corporate fascists’ message is “Jobs and Freedom”---even as they conspire to ship our jobs overseas, withhold credit from small businesses and stage a capital strike aimed at crippling the economy. And the “freedom” part? Don’t make me laugh. Remember Rudi Giuliani, Bush’s appointed successor? He made a deal with Murdoch’s NewsCorp. Had the Mayor from 9/11 been elected, he would have made Fox News the official news of the American people . That was why the other news organization slapped him down like a malaria infected mosquito.

If the nation’s news organizations are smart, they will learn from history. The handful of billionaires who are shelling out millions of dollars for radio and television airtime to peddle their lies---these guys are not the friends of the press. The very minute they achieve power, they will start to do what Goebbel’s advocated in his 1933 address.

It is our dearest wish that science, industry and the intellectual leadership of German radio from now on will follow a new path, at the end of which stands our common, great goal:
One People, one Reich, one will, and a glorious German future!

[Demeter]

1. A Free Internet Is the Tenth Power, and It Trumps All The Rest

which is why we have to fight to keep it neutral.

[blindpig]

2. Goebbels was a master propagandists

Unsurprisingly, his playbook came from the USA, written by Edward Bernays, coincidently Sigmund Freud's nephew.

[nxylas]

3. Do you have a source for the bit about 9u/11ani's deal with Murdoch?

I'd not heard of it before, and I'd be interested to read more.