By Emily Shultheis @ TheAtlantic.com, Aug. 14

[....] It’s no secret that journalists have struggled to figure out how best to cover the far right and their signature issues here in Europe and, of course, across the Atlantic. A political party with 92 seats in the German Bundestag is inherently newsworthy, as are the issues it advocates. At the same time, the German (and European) media has been criticized for an overly sensational focus on refugee and migration issues here; constant media focus on such issues helps keep them on people’s minds even after the flow of migrants has slowed significantly.

American journalists faced the same issue on Sunday when they were presented with the white supremacist “Unite the Right” gathering just steps away from the White House—and turned out in force for what ultimately ended up being two dozen rally-goers.

But Walde’s interview with Gauland Sunday was a study in contrasts with how American media handled the scene in Washington [....]