It’s not cover for “journalists”. It’s so they can shut up people who are NOT journalists. Such as people posting on the internet.
We demand laws to fight against deliberate political lies and their dissemination
by the press. In order to make it possible to create a German press, we demand:
a) all editors and editorial employees of newspapers appearing in the German
language must be German by race;
b) non-German newspapers require express permission from the State for
their publication. They may not be printed in the German language;
c) any financial participation in a German newspaper or influence on such a
paper is to be forbidden by law to non-Germans and the penalty for any
breech of this law will be the closing of the newspaper in question, as well
as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-Germans involved.
Newspapers which violate the public interest are to be banned. We
demand laws against trends in art and literature which have a destructive
effect on our national life, and the suppression of performances that offend
against the above requirements.
Nazi Party Platform 1920