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Re:Germany’s biggest companies are ditching the fatherland by ttepasse on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:44PM (#36731946)
Matthias Doepfner’s mails and chats including pressure to upsell the FDP in Springer’s papers leaked in April and were widely reported. That’s not a conspiracy theory. If it were, Doepfner could sue. He didn’t.

https://www.zeit.de/2023/16/mathias-doepfner-axel-springer-i...

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Re:Germany’s biggest companies are ditching the fatherland by alephnerd on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:03PM (#36732062)
Not denying Axel Springer's practices in Germany.

I'm just calling it as I know it having worked closely with people who currently work at Politico or used to work at Politico,

What happens in the future I can't predict, but were there to be any kind of meddling in a HEAVILY AMERICAN newsroom would

1. Be very openly reported on by their competitors

2. See a massive amount of disgruntled ex-employees leaving for Axios (eg. the exodus at Protocol), The Hill, etc.

3. Wokld be talked about openly as a lot of us have worked closely with Politico members.

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