Not The Onion

13639 readers

763 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

327

France Far-right Leader Cancels US Speech After 'Nazi Gesture' By Ex-Trump Aide (www.barrons.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

33 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] needanke@feddit.org 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Fyi politico is owned by Springer who are partially responsible for the German shift to the (far) right.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

How so? (Not trying to start an argument; am genuinely curious for sources because I found it hard to find info when I googled this)

Edit: not the politico being owned by Springer, but Springer being partially responsible for the rightward shift

[–] needanke@feddit.org 2 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago)

Springer is the publisher of Bild and Welt (among others) , two major German papers (Bild is the biggest in Germany).

Especially Bild is known for its right wing populist tendencies

Some more recent examples (all in German for obvious reasons)

their own former (vice) editor in chief of accused them of spreading Afd (Far right/partially facist party) naratives: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/medien/ex-bams-chef-rechnet-mit-bild-zeitung-ab-3991837.html
Recently Bild has been credibly accused of pushing a narrative against a clean-heating law on behave of Springers owner, a fossil fuel company, https://www.lobbycontrol.de/lobbyismus-und-klima/springer-konzern-nutzte-hauptaktionaer-kkr-den-medienkonzern-fuer-politische-einflussnahme-118529/
during the euro-crisis they pushed an anti-Greek narrative https://taz.de/Studie-der-Otto-Brenner-Stiftung/!5123284/
they have been actively supporting for the current CDU-front runner in bevoming the CDUs candidate over more moderate options (Merz is on the right of the CDU, the big conservative party in Germany: https://bildblog.de/104902/bild-am-rande-des-merzinfarkts/
during Covid they pushed against lockdowns and 'the politicians responsible': https://www1.wdr.de/daserste/monitor/sendungen/bild-skandal-macher-100.html
intended (and did) directly push the Fdp (libertarian party) to avoid the "red-green disaster" (i.e. a coalition of Spd (center-left) and greens (also center-left)) during the last election: https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Kann-man-noch-mehr-fuer-die-FDP-tun--article24049439.html
played a major part in agitations against refugees during the so called 'migrant-crisis': https://forumwk.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Medienanalyse_Flucht_Migration-1.pdf
this was their front page just now (we have a national election tomorrow):

the top headline says: "The Left is done - Merzes last words ahead of the election.The one on the bottom left says "Jogi Löw [former soccer coach] calls for Germany first"

There is honestly a lot more I could put here. In Germany the Bild is well known as a populist right wing paper. It is not exactly new either. A famous quote from the Punk-Rock song 'Lasse Redn' (2008) when describing the papers content is "Angst Hass Titten und der Wetterbericht" (fear, hate, tits and the weather). The common hastag when talking about them in left-leaning circles is #haltdiefresseBild (shut up Bild). There even is a Browser extension dedicated to block all Springer owned or published products.

While some of its other papers seem more nuanced at fist glance, they often push similar narratives packaged for their respective audiences.