Through the Looking Glass: Press Responses to Genocide.

Lipstadt, Deborah E.

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ERIC Number: EJ427727

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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Through the Looking Glass: Press Responses to Genocide.

Lipstadt, Deborah E.

Social Education, v55 n2 p116-20,129 Feb 1991

Examines press coverage of the Holocaust to analyze the response of the United States and the world to the Jewish extermination. Compares this coverage to earlier press responses to the Armenian genocide and Ukraine famines. Argues the press was unwilling to face the Holocaust's magnitude. Urges teachers to teach about the Holocaust and similar events. (NL)

Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), European History, Genocide, Higher Education, International Crimes, International Studies, Jews, Mass Media, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, Media Research, Modern History, Nazism, News Reporting, Secondary Education, Social Studies

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: USSR

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