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Originally Posted by Unique_Carpenter
Politico has had a left leaning bias for quite a while.
And there's other examples than the laptop story.
Acquired in Aug 21, by German outfit Axel Springer SE, that management stated in Oct 21 "he expects Politico staffers to adhere to Axel Springer-wide guiding principles that have raised controversy at times at its German properties".
This is directly from a Wall St Journal Article by Bojan Pancevski.
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excellent point. Politico did indeed give up it's independent status by agreeing to 1 B acquisition by Axel Springer SE and some new rules from Germany ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politi..._Axel_Springer
Acquisition by Axel Springer
In October 2021, the large German publishing and media firm
Axel Springer SE announced that it had completed the acquisition of
Politico for over $1 billion. The closing took place in late October 2021.
[77][78][79] The new owners said they would add staff, and at some point, put the publication's news content behind a
paywall.
[80][81][82]
Axel Springer's Chief Executive
Mathias Döpfner said that Politico staff would need to adhere to Axel Springer's principles,
[83] including support for a united Europe, Israel's right to exist, advocate the transatlantic alliance between the United States of America and Europe and a free-market economy, and that staff who disagree with the principles "should not work for Axel Springer, very clearly".
[84] Axel Springer said that they would not require
Politico employees to sign documents in support of a
transatlantic alliance or Israel, though this policy is enforced at German newspaper
Bild, another Axel Springer subsidiary.
[85]
In September 2022,
Politico published an exposé critical of NGO leadership at the helm of the worldwide
COVID-19 pandemic response, written in cooperation with the German newspaper
Die Welt, another Axel Springer property.
[86]
nothing like a 1 B windfall to uber liberal stockholders to make them show their true colors as closet capitalists
they'll take the money every time
bahahahahaaaa
Politico Now Admits It Squashed Negative Biden Stories!!
