“…The break was initiated by young scholars, many of them convinced Nazis, some of them careerists who took their profits from the forced emigration of their former colleagues or pupils (for the emigration of scientists in newspaper and media studies to the US and other countries see Kutsch, 1988;Wilke, 1991;Averbeck, 2001). After the 'Third Reich', the German Zeitungswissenschaft as a whole was blamed, the output of the discipline, like the 'Handbuch der Zeitungswissenschaft', speaks a language of totalitarian ideas, Antisemitism, racism and strong stimulus-response perspectives on communication, especially propaganda (Bohrmann & Kutsch, 1979;Hausjell et al, 2004;Kutsch, 2006). It was not easy to (re)build Publizistikwissenschaft in Germany (Bohrmann, 1997;Kutsch & Pöttker, 1997;Klein, 2006;Wilke, 2006;.…”