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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould the Possible Sale of Huffington Post to Right-Wing Company Affect Its Editorial Line?
from AlterNet, via truthdig:
Could the Possible Sale of Huffington Post to Right-Wing Company Affect Its Editorial Line?
Posted on Jun 4, 2015
This month, Newsweek quietly reported that a German media conglomerate called Axel Springer was the most serious contender to buy the Huffington Post in the proposed sale of the magazines corporate parent, AOL, to Verizon. While Newsweek detailed Springers sizable media holdings in Germany and beyond, from the tabloid Bild to the newspaper Die Welt, it failed to note the stringently enforced right-wing editorial line that makes Springer the German equivalent of Rupert Murdochs News Corp.
Among the five preambles of Springers corporate principles is the requirement that employees support the vital rights of the State of Israel. Journalists are also expected to uphold the principles of a free social market economy and support the Transatlantic Alliance and maintain solidarity with the United States of America in the common values of free nations. The webpage outlining Springers preambles mysteriously disappeared from the web months before the company entered the bidding for the Huffington Post. (An archived version of the page can be viewed here).
The Huffington Post is one of Americas most widely read online news outlets. While the sites various niche portals earn much of their traffic through clickbait headlines and celebrity news, the Huffington Posts politics section has made its mark with slashing coverage of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, Likudnik mega-donors and police brutality. Huffington Post reporters have targeted Democratic senators who promoted war on Iran and highlighted President Barack Obamas support for of a provision in TPP that would reward companies that profit from slavery. Earlier this year, Obama urged House Democrats not to read the Huffington Post, complaining that the outlet reported unfairly on the free trade agenda he has been promoting.
Springers editorial line offers a stark contrast to the Huffington Post. Founded in 1946 by the journalist Axel Springer, the company now holds about $3 billion in assets and oversees a collection of publications mostly associated with what left-wing Germans derisively refer to as the boulevard press. Springer took a turn to the populist right in the late 1960s when Axel Springer sicced his most popular tabloid, Bild, against the radical left-wing student movement in West Germany. The paper homed in on Rudi Dutschke, one of the movements most visible leaders, accusing him of conspiring to bring down West Germany through violent revolution while calling on patriotic Germans to eliminate the trouble makers. On April 11, 1968, a lonely neo-Nazi mechanic and avid Bild reader named Josef Bachmann riddled Dutschke with bullets as he bicycled through Berlin. Bachmann testified later in court that he had developed his view of Dutschke exclusively through the Springer press and assorted right-wing nationalist rags. As protests exploded across West Germany, with students chanting, Springer pulled the trigger! Axel Springer directed his editors to call for harsh police crackdowns on the demonstrators while whitewashing Bachmann as a lone madman no less deranged than his victim, the red maniac Dutschke. (Dutschke died of injury-related complications in 1979 and Springers son committed suicide months later). ................(more)
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/could_possible_sale_huffington_post_to_right-wing_company_affect_20150604
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Could the Possible Sale of Huffington Post to Right-Wing Company Affect Its Editorial Line? (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2015
OP
Probably get more news on the Kadashians & Bruce Jenner(or whoever) Probably not much about....
dmosh42
Jun 2015
#4
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)1. If they own it, itis theirs to command.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)2. They'd wind up firing most of the reporters there. nt
onecaliberal
(32,902 posts)3. Because there just isn't enough reicht wing bile spewed in this country.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)4. Probably get more news on the Kadashians & Bruce Jenner(or whoever) Probably not much about....
in-equality!
Javaman
(62,534 posts)5. even more bad puns in their writing and more fluff pieces with a right wing twist. nt
Nay
(12,051 posts)6. Do bears shit in the woods? Is the Pope Catholic? nt