{"id":59961,"date":"2021-10-18T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59961"},"modified":"2021-10-18T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:05:00","slug":"refreshingly-honest-billionaire-says-media-purchase-will-be-used-for-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59961","title":{"rendered":"Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/10\/18\/refreshingly-honest-billionaire-says-media-purchase-will-be-used-for-propaganda\/\">Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-10633\" class=\"post-10633 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-axel-springer tag-billionaires tag-mathias-dopfner tag-media tag-msm tag-politico tag-propaganda\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-7.jpg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-7.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-7-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-7-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-2-7-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/refreshingly-honest-billionaire-says-media-purchase-will-be-used-for-propaganda\"><em>Listen to a reading of this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1143549718&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire CEO of the multibillion-dollar corporation that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/26\/axel-springer-to-buy-politico.html\">recently purchased<\/a>\u00a0the news media outlet Politico has said that its newly acquired employees will be required to support Israel and the capitalist world order.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/vwCBY\">recent interview<\/a>\u00a0with The Wall Street Journal, Mathias D\u00f6pfner, CEO of the German publisher Axel Springer, said that Politico staffers will be required to adhere to a set of principles which include \u201csupport for a united Europe, Israel\u2019s right to exist and a free-market economy, among others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese values are like a constitution, they apply to every employee of our company,\u201d Mr. D\u00f6pfner told WSJ. People with a fundamental problem with any of these principles \u201cshould not work for Axel Springer, very clearly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, how refreshing is that? How often does a billionaire corporation buy up a media property and just straightforwardly tell you they\u2019re going to be using it to push propaganda? They even say what the propaganda will be. It makes you feel like your intelligence is being respected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1449825289857548293&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F10%2F18%2Frefreshingly-honest-billionaire-says-media-purchase-will-be-used-for-propaganda%2F&amp;sessionId=f99fef861df58982cd506ed739f2fe559868742d&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=fcb1942%3A1632982954711&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1449825289857548293\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Supporting global capitalism and defending the Israeli apartheid regime are both very standard positions promoted by all billionaire media outlets in the western world; they just aren\u2019t normally honest enough to\u00a0<em>tell<\/em>\u00a0you that. Normally they pretend to be an objective free press reporting truthfully about what\u2019s going on in the world; their executives do not customarily come forward to explain the specific\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPazn1XNDQI\">establishment biases<\/a>\u00a0its reporters will need to promote if they don\u2019t want to be fired. That sort of thing normally happens\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/mass-medias-phony-freakout-over-bernie-s-wapo-criticism-is-backfiring-f97d9c6272f8\">a lot more subtly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 The billionaire CEO of the multibillion-dollar corporation that\u00a0recently purchased\u00a0the news media outlet Politico has said that its newly acquired employees will be required to support Israel and the capitalist world order. In a\u00a0recent interview\u00a0with The Wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31987,17039,336,512,7831,655],"class_list":["post-59961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-axel-springer","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-free-press","tag-media","tag-politico","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59962,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59961\/revisions\/59962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}