skews13
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The Washington Post has a long read on the man now in control of American political news site Politico, and it comes with the newsworthy snippet that Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner sent a rather bizarre email to his executive team "weeks" before the November 2020 elections.
"Do we all want to get together for an hour in the morning on November 3 and pray that Donald Trump will again become President of the United States of America?" he asked his team.
Much of the news you read comes through the filter of right-leaning corporate owners who don't give a particular damn about anything but themselves and their personal cash flows, whether it be the Post's own worker-gouging Bezos or the unmitigated malevolence of the Murdoch clan. It's baked in.
The weirder part is that Döpfner apparently insisted quite boldly he had never sent such a message, right up until the Post showed him their copy of the email in question, after which he claimed he might have sent such a thing as "an ironic, provocative statement in the circle of people that hate Donald Trump."
You know, just to get a rise out of his own executives. As one does, when one wants to be a free-spirited provocateur.
Funny how every major media outlet gravitates towards a version of political neutrality in which even violence-provoking anti-democratic extremism can be tolerated as mere partisan sniping as long as it comes with tax cuts for the outlet's major owners.
"Do we all want to get together for an hour in the morning on November 3 and pray that Donald Trump will again become President of the United States of America?" he asked his team.
Much of the news you read comes through the filter of right-leaning corporate owners who don't give a particular damn about anything but themselves and their personal cash flows, whether it be the Post's own worker-gouging Bezos or the unmitigated malevolence of the Murdoch clan. It's baked in.
The weirder part is that Döpfner apparently insisted quite boldly he had never sent such a message, right up until the Post showed him their copy of the email in question, after which he claimed he might have sent such a thing as "an ironic, provocative statement in the circle of people that hate Donald Trump."
You know, just to get a rise out of his own executives. As one does, when one wants to be a free-spirited provocateur.
Funny how every major media outlet gravitates towards a version of political neutrality in which even violence-provoking anti-democratic extremism can be tolerated as mere partisan sniping as long as it comes with tax cuts for the outlet's major owners.
