Although the mass media usually ignore revisionism and its protagonists, there are numerous exceptions to this rule, some of them marking a marking a breech in the walls of silence and defamation, yet others merely another escalation in the ugly game of blaming the victim. The contributions listed here deal with various such events where the media paid attention to revisionism in one way or other.
By David Merlin ∙ September 7, 2017
Hello Mr. Stewart, Thank you for your inquiry regarding the tagging of CODOH as an "Active Holocaust Denial Hate Group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. https://edit.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/holocaust-denial As I mentioned in our conversation, the characterization of the CODOH as a hate group is incorrect. CODOH is open to all people interested in history and free…
By Mark Weber, David Cole ∙ February 24, 2017
This video from the 1990's is only memorabilia of what used to be able to be discussed on mainstream media. David Cole and Mark Weber appear on the Montel Williams Show to debate certain issues and various interesting unaddressed questions relating to the claims made about the Holocaust.
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1997
Portions of an interview filmed at the office of the Institute for Historical Review were featured in a television report broadcast on two German regional television networks. The half-hour report, “Neo-Nazis Online: The Advance of the Extremists on the Internet,” was shown on the “Shaft of Light” series broadcast in late 1996 on the SDR…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1995
In addition to the attention generated because of the impact of its materials on the Internet, the Institute for Historical Review has been attracting other recent media attention. A few highlights: A brief but error-packed item about the Institute appeared prominently in The Washington Post, May 11, under the headline “The Neo-Nazi Network.” With blatant…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1995
Auschwitz: The End of a Legend, the recently published book by Italian scholar Carlo Mattogno, has been receiving detailed and sympathetic attention on a radio talk show with a wide listenership in the western United States. Russ Granata, a retired southern California teacher and US Navy veteran of World War II who played a crucial…
By Mark Weber, Greg Raven ∙ July 1, 1994
During the past year Bradley Smith – America’s most prominent revisionist activist, and a good friend of the Institute for Historical Review – has succeeded in generatingunprecedented nationwide publicity for Holocaust revisionism as part of his “Campus Project.” Defying a well-organized campaign of threats, intimidation and smears, he and his Committee for Open Debate on…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1994
“60 Minutes,” America's single most widely viewed television program and by far the most influential public affairs program, devoted the lead segment of its March 20 broadcast to Holocaust revisionism.[1] In spite of its clearly hostile bias and deceitful omissions and distortions, this popular, primetime CBS News broadcast was a major media advance for historical…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1994
Video not playing? Download file instead. Watch the Phil Donahue Show of March 14, 1994, featuring Bradley Smith, David Cole and Michael Shermer(with comments by Mike Smith aka DenierBud) With an estimated eight to eleven million viewers, “Donahue” is one of America's most popular television talk shows. Thus, the recent appearance of revisionist activists Bradley…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1994
Just as the historic handshake between Israeli premier Rabin and Palestinian leader Arafat on September 13 was all but unthinkable just a few months earlier, some of what has recently been appearing about the IHR and this Journal in prominent newspapers and magazines would have been unthinkable a year or two ago. One or two…
By Mark Weber ∙ November 1, 1993
David Cole appeared on the nationally-broadcast Morton Downey television show, on the episode aired October 13 (or 14), 1993. Downey was at his typically raving and vicious worst, loudly denouncing Cole as “crap,” and saying that the young Jewish Holocaust revisionist should be given “a damn good spanking.”
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