I'll never read those outlets in the future. Nice when people show they have a blackened heart and devoid of a brain.

Well that's surprisingly straightforward.

Small outlets should refuse to sell themselves to rich media owners

FYI: Döpfner is a vile billionaire and Trump lover deep in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry who had a major influence on the premature collapse of the last green/socdem German government. The neolibertairian FDP was an (albeit small) party in the government coalition whose plans to crash the government (named D-Day papers) were leaked shortly before it ended a year prematurely.

Döpfner is the head of the Springer publishing house which diseminates the infamous biggest daily boulevard magazine BILD which drove a relentless two year long smear campaign mainly against the Green party and specifically against the economy minister Robert Habeck and his plans to electrify Germany with solar, heatpumps and green hydrogen. The latter was a success nevertheless as Germany had a record production of renewables when the government crashed eventually.

Leaked messages between Döpfner and Julian Reichelt (a sex pest and then chief editor of the BILD) exist in which Döpfner advises him to empower the FDP via his "journalism" to let the Traffic Light Coalition (Greens, Workers red and neolib yellow) crash. In addition multiple investigative reports were published from independent outlets which prove deep ties between the Döpfner/Springer and fossil fuel lobbying organizations like e.g. KKR or the Koch Brothers.

And oh yeah, to perfect the picture: Döpfners son works for Peter Thiel.

WAS politici not a neutral trustworthy site? As far as I remember,. anyway?

Doesn't matter, I'll never trust it again now

Nice religious discrimination

Everyone needs to know the places they get their news from. They also own Business Insider:

Mathias Dopfner, CEO and major shareholder

Mathias Döpfner (born 15 January 1963) is a German businessman, author, art collector, and journalist. He is the CEO of media group Axel Springer SE and, together with Friede Springer, holds 95% of the share in the company.[1] From 2016 to 2022 he was president of the Federal Association of Digital Publishers and Newspaper Publishers (BDZV).

Döpfner has been described as a "close associate of Netanyahu" and "one of the most prominent and courageous voices in Europe in the longstanding fight against antisemitism and a staunch supporter of the state of Israel."[29]

In July 2025, Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote that Döpfner's name had been linked to the BibiLeaks scandal, where the alleged leak of a classified document from Netanyahu's office to Bild, a newspaper led by Döpfner.[30]

In October 2025, Döpfner was awarded the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor along with Israeli-American GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson by Israeli President Isaac Herzog.[31]

In October 2025, Döpfner wrote an op-ed in Politico accusing European aid to Palestine as having funded terrorism, and writing that by restricting aid to Israel, Europe was on the "wrong side of history".[32] In March 2026, he subsequently wrote a Politico op-ed expressing support for Israel and the United States in the 2026 Iran War.[33]

Company Axel Springer SE

As of 2001, the Axel Springer SE names what it describes as "solidarity with the libertarian values of the United States of America" as one of its core principles on its website.[62] This explicit stance has led to criticism from scholars and independent observers regarding the company's reported alignment with American interests.[63][64][65][66][67] Furthermore, an article in Foreign Policy has criticised Axel Springer SE for a history of compromising journalistic ethics to support right-wing causes, implying a longstanding pattern of bias in its publications.[68]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE

So, no belief in political freedom, or freedom from persecution there.

Hey, maybe we could even forbid people who don't support Israel from owning businesses, smash up their businesses, and make those people wear yellow stars on their clothes, so we can identify them better.

Make him fire you.

"Freedom of speech" was listed as a core value but apparently not if you use that speech to criticize Israel

Politicians get a lot of blame for our current state but I think journalists are just as culpable.

Professional standards (and human morality) exist for a reason.

As soon as we get to the tipping point and collectively realise the only way to get any chance of having a normal world again, is to rid ourselves of this Epstein Class, he will be one of the first to fall. He virtually has no personal security compared to many of the others.

So anyone posting those two here shall be berated

Ellison's orders are coming down the chain.

Oops, accidently letting that racial supremacy mask slip off.

He insists that loyalty to Israel sits at the heart of the company’s identity

That's just propaganda without the paychecks.

Press freedom in western civilisation!

I have to add Politico and telegraph to my DNS blocklost now don't I....

When one of the Pillars of Democracy is subverted the result is the breaking down of Democracy, which certainly explains why most of the West has morphed away from Democracy towards Oligarchy and even further towards Fascism.

Resign from... journalism?

Dude must be in the epstein files

Here is a radical thought, how about, now just hear me out, and I know this sounds crazy, but it has worked in the past, how about we just report what is happening, without adding needless additional politics to it?

I don’t understand all of the ass kissing of Israel. I keep reading story after story of the IDF and just normal Israelis going out of their way to be cruel. Like throwing rocks at school children. Or destroying hospitals and houses because they can act with impunity. Or arresting 5 year old kids.

I mean WTAF. Why is this something that should be supported? They are acting like bullies and should be treated as such.

Wish our media wasn't captured by blood thristy dick bags

Having read their headlines and reports, I think he controls the BBC too.

Journalists who want to report positively on Israel should serve six months there first.

If they survive, and are somehow brainwashed into still supporting those scum, are beyond help anyway.