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US Urban vs Rural News Reporting
After analyzing 8 different newspaper exerts from the History Unfolded Database, a collection of thousands of news clippings related to the Holocaust, certain trends became apparent

The United States’ reporting on the book burnings piqued after the May 10th 1933 Berlin burning but varied in coverage and approach. Publications from urban areas like the Miami Herald, Honolulu Star-Bulletin and The Philadelphia Inquirer, newspapers lean towards a more critical stance on the book burnings and Nazi regime. The Miami Herald’s article by Walt Lippman denoted the Nazi regime as “violent in its character” and claimed that the destruction of intellectual property was an ominous sign of the Nazis’ preparation for war. The Honolulu Bulletin commented that Hitler’s attempt to eradicate the non-German would be fruitless as similar attempts had failed in other “kingdoms”. Although there were numerous other news clippings, the Philadelphia Inquirer is the last chosen example because it promoted of a wide-scale protest against the Nazi regime and its book burnings. On the other hand, the trends that appeared in rural and suburban area reporting appeared to be less critical of the Third Reich, instead they were more wary and angered at the burning of American authors. This was seen in newspapers like the Wilmington Morning News, The Ogden Utah Examiner and the Evening Herald Courier of Bristol Tennessee. The Tennessee newspaper described the event in a very straightforward manner, called Goebbels the “minister of enlightenment” and lacked concern for the seriousness of the issue. Additionally, the Delaware Morning News denoted the behavior of the Germans as “childish”, failing to realize the true insidious nature of the book burning acts.