The award ceremony is slated to include remarks from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Too bad, I get a couple of daily Politico newsletters that I like. Now I’ll have to cancel them, and tell them why.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      282·
      3 days ago

      Well, good. Genuine question, though: What finally changed your mind? Because plenty users of the Fediverse have repeatedly warned about Politico and their far right connections. This is on brand for Axel Springer. They‘ve been helping german Neo-Nazis to gain influence for decades and have been expanding globally for a while now. The whole thing is owned by a billionaire who is just as bad ad Thiel or Musk.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    3 days ago

    OK I’ve heard often here on Lemmy that Springer is really bad and we should avoid Politico, but I wasn’t quite sure I believed he is as bad as they claimed…

    But obviously he is. ☹️ 😡
    I guess I have to thank him for making it crystal clear.

    • lievenEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      Fun* fact: Politico is the main news source for EU politicians, leaders and eurocrats. While you can make a tepid argument that their news coverage is ok their opinion pieces are biased, not exactly pro-EU and clearly informed by the Anglospheric view of things.

      *not really

    • Koenig2005@feddit.orgEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      One important thing here: Springer and Axel Springer are two different publishers. Springer is a publisher for scientific books and has nothing to do with Axel Springer, which is the publisher behind problematic newspapers like Bild, Welt or Politico.

        • Koenig2005@feddit.orgEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          I’m not exactly sure but at least their logo just says Springer. Just wanted to point that out for people who might not know, because I was once confused about if they have anything to do with each other.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Sure that would be possible, I just thought that Springer is a relatively common name.
            Apparently it has changed name at some point, so now it’s called Springer Science+Business Media, with companies just called Springer.

            I used a few books from Springer-Verlag back in the 90’s, despite it’s harder for me to read German than English, they had a few books that were absolutely stellar.
            It would be very sad if those were related to Axel Springer.

  • eicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    This is why media ownership matters: When the people deciding what gets amplified are also celebrating political power brokers, it becomes harder to separate journalism from influence. Even if Politico’s newsroom stays independent, the optics alone are enough to make readers question where the lines really are.

  • skhayfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I would like to formally give a prize to far right billionaire Peter Thiel. Biggest Shit stain on humanity, Congrats Mr Thiel you will be forever forgotten as soon as you pass out, but your stinking legacy will remain.

  • Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    Why are all these cunts in charge of the media? Time for a reset. The 4th estate is meant to hold a mirror up to “the powerful” not fucking join them.

    Easily resolved.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Billionaires are in charge of most media these days. The Epstein class is one big swamp covering for each other‘s atrocities.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Part of this is people expect to journalism to be a profitable business and it often isn’t and instead of reckoning with that and figuring out how to reliably fund journalism anyways we leave it for the rich to buy up and fiddle with disastrously.

    • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Partly they bought themself media companies, but also most media makes most of their money from ads and guess who the rich companies like. Also when you are successful with a media company, you end up rich, which then aligns your interest with the rich.

      Also it is not resolved easily. Public broadcasters tend to be aligned with politicans, which makes them fairly centrist. There are some media companies run by foundations and the like and that seems to work okay.

        • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
          22·
          3 days ago

          If you just kill the media billionaires, the current system will just create new ones. Going for a revolution is not at all easy and even that has a long history of ending up with a system, which is very similar to the previous one, just with different assholes.

          System change is not easy at all.

  • derAbsender@piefed.socialEnglish
    121·
    3 days ago

    This newspaper is an organ of infamy. It is wrong to read them. Someone who contributes to this newspaper is absolutely socially unacceptable. It would be a mistake to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. You have to be as unfriendly to them as the law allows. It’s bad people who do the wrong thing.

    Max Goldt on BILD the main crime of Axel Springer, but applicable to all its printed waste.