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Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda

The CEO of the multibillion-dollar corporation that recently purchased @Politico has said that employees of the outlet will be required to support Israel and capitalism.
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Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda (Audio)

"How often does a billionaire corporation buy up a media property and just straightforwardly tell you they're going to be using it to push propaganda?"
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"How refreshing is that? How often does a billionaire corporation buy up a media property and just straightforwardly tell you they're 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."

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't normally honest enough to TELL you that.

https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1449825289857548293

Normally they pretend to be an objective free press reporting truthfully about the world; their executives do not customarily come forward to explain the specific establishment biases its reporters will need to promote if they don't want to be fired.

That sort of thing normally happens a lot more subtly:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1161425971448373249?s=20

Can you imagine if Jeff Bezos had purchased the Washington Post and been open about the fact that billionaires need to buy up narrative control to protect the status quo upon which their sprawling kingdoms are built? If he'd just been honest about this?

https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1405983283993796611?s=20

Döpfner is reportedly worth over a billion dollars, and Axel Springer is worth an estimated $6.8 billion. He is married to the daughter of a former management board member of Deutsche Bank. So propaganda for "a free-market economy" and opposition to communism is a no-brainer.

Döpfner has called himself a non-Jewish Zionist, and has long called support for Israel "a German duty."

There are surely better ways for Germany to atone for its past than to back a racist ethnostate which imprisons a persecuted ethnic and religious demographic in an open air concentration camp to the geostrategic advantage of today's genocidal imperialist western power, the USA.

Still though, it's refreshing. If the Germans can spread some of their world-renowned frankness throughout the operation of mass-scale plutocratic propaganda, we'll all be better off for it.

When someone becomes a billionaire they often start buying up narrative control in the form of media outlets, conveniently placed advertising in news media, PR firms, online platforms, funding for think tanks and NGOs, "philanthropy", and other forms of mass-scale manipulation.

This is because if people weren't trained how to think about things, they would never consent to allowing so much of the world's wealth and power to go toward so very few people who are so consistently ill-suited to rule the world for the benefit of everyone.

Wealthy people who fail to manufacture the consent of their subjects have historically wound up with their heads in baskets. That's why they work so hard to manipulate the way the public thinks, acts and votes, and that's why our society is as messed up as it is.