Posted on 08/30/2021 7:12:15 AM PDT by JV3MRC
The left-wing Politico has been sold to a German company for a ridiculous $1 billion.
The Washingtonian reported that the Virginia-based news outlet is being sold for a whopping $1 billion to Axel Springer SE. The two entities had reportedly“been joint venture partners since 2014” when Politico Europe was launched, according to Business Wire. But the company is plagued with bias. Axel Springer Chairman and CEO Mathias Döpfner falsely accused President Donald Trump of being behind the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot by saying he “call[ed] for a coup against democratic institutions.” Even more damning was Döpfner’s op-ed in 2017, which nonsensically flailed that “Trump speaks the language of the mafia.” Really. “What does Trump have to do in order to be perceived by a sufficiently large number of Republicans as a democracy threat and thus no longer acceptable?” Döpfner whined. But Politico attaching itself to a company with explicit bias is characteristic of the publication’s years-long rap sheet of leftist bias.
The outlet’s magazine previously argued along the same anti-Trump vein as Döpfner by publishing a piece comparing the drug addiction of musician Keith Richards to Trump in a November 2020 story headlined: “What Keith Richards Can Teach Us About Beating Our Donald Trump Addiction.” In the article’s strange metaphor, Americans are Keith Richards and Trump was their heroin.
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“But the company is plagued with bias.”
And Politico wasnt?
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
The two entities had reportedly "been joint venture partners since 2014" when Politico Europe was launched, according to Business Wire.
I smell Soros money.
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
Suckers!
They paid $1 billion for a punch of leftist journo-hacks and a website. Good luck with that.
Everyone in the know calls it “Bulls**tico”
Money. Laundered.
But for whom?
Translation: How to make Politico even less relevant to Americans.
Axel Springer seeing the quarterly results on the Politico asset:
NEIN! NEIN! NEIN!
Libtards don’t need news - they crave cheerleaders
They must have needed a massive write-down to offset profits elsewhere.
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