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.

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

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.

Exactly. It‘s billionaires giving each other awards for being awful to us.

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

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.

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.

Literally looks like a skin suit. Sweaty bastard really is the antichrist.