Please remind me. How did the American media and Hollywood see Hitler and the NAZIs prior to his attack on Russia?
The media was divided. While Henry Luce, publisher of the magazines Time and Life favored aiding the Allies, Chicago Tribune publisher Robert McCormick remained staunchly isolationist.
The Communist Party and its fronts were solidly anti-Nazi until the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939, then immediately switched to a militant stance in favor of isolationism and against intervention. When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they were once again militantly interventionist.
As an example, the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League was formed in 1937 as a grass-roots effort among those in the movie industry to combat Nazism and fascism. However, being Communist-dominated, the group changed its name to the Hollywood League for Democratic Action in 1939, following the Hitler-Stalin pact.
In the spring of 1941, the Almanac Singers, a left-wing folk-singing group whose members included Pete Seeger, recorded an anti-war album entitled "Songs for John Doe." A few weeks after its release, Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, and the album quickly disappeared from record stores and has since become a collector's item, although it is available on CD. Shortly afterwards, the group was recording pro-war songs such as "Reuben James."