D-Day media coverage deserved a grade of D-

Rex Curry

D-Day has passed, and everyone remembered those who defended freedom and fought socialism. It was also a day to remember that the word "Nazi" is short for "National Socialist German Workers' Party."

Many people forget the meaning of the word "Nazi" and that the U.S. helped end a war that began when the National Socialist German Workers’ Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics invaded Poland in a pact to divide up Eastern Europe. http://members.ij.net/rex/socialistwar.html

The media can help the public remember through the many articles and editorials that commemorate the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Europe in WWII.

Google Inc., helps the public remember through its "News search" which enables anyone to locate any news items that use the full phrase "National Socialist German Worker' Party" or even the over-used "Nazi."

It is shocking that on D-Day this year, the Google News search showed that the media had not used the full phrase "National Socialist German Workers' Party" a single time. The media had used the abbreviation 538 times before noon. D-Day media coverage deserves a grade of D-.

A Google News search (for any use on any date) of the full phrase revealed a dumbfounding total of four results. One of those results was an excerpt from a book posted as a review, and was not a "news" item. All three of the other uses were by the journalist and historian Rex Curry, writing about this very topic of media bias.
http://news.google.com/news?q=%22national%20socialist%20german%20workers%20party%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wn

Google Inc., helps the public remember through its free "News Alerts" which enable anyone to receive instantaneous email alerts for any topic, including the full phrase "National Socialist German Worker' Party" or even the over-used "Nazi." The public should be warned against requesting alerts for the abbreviation "Nazi," as any receiving inbox will be flooded with repetitious media cliches. The pubic should be confident in requesting alerts for the full phrase, as any receiving inbox will be unlikely to ever receive an alert (and if an alert comes, it will probably be about something I wrote, such as this article).

Many newspapers have websites with archive search engines that reveal how often the full phrase has been used (if ever) for comparison with a newspaper’s hackneyed use of the horrid words “Nazi,” “Nazis” and “Nazism.” Some media outlets have never written the full phrase, but use the abbreviations so often that their search engines cannot display all the results. For example, recent searches of the websites at the Seattle Times, the New York Times and the St. Petersburg Times, showed no incidents of any of their writers ever having written in their papers: National Socialist German Workers' Party.

D-Day is a reminder of our libertarian victory in the ongoing struggle against socialism.

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

Rexy@ij.net