2. Ben Smith's typically excellent column yesterday on Axel Springer focused on the toxic workplace culture and only made glancing reference to the company's culture of ideological conformity, which is also inimical to good journalism.
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3. There's an ideological framework of centrist liberalism (articulate by Jonathan Chait or the Atlantic) which is attuned to free speech threats from the extreme right & extreme left but is blind to the problem of extreme centrists (Axel Springer being center right in USA).
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4. Axel Springer explicitly expects its journalists to be loyal to company ideology (pro-EU, pro-capitalist, pro-Israeli nationalism). In regular media, this is usually done informally (hiring Ivy League types for whom this is default mode) but AS has actual ideological rulespic.twitter.com/lmThhBnQlV
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5. Some more thoughts on the toxic culture Axel Springer will be bringing to Politico.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/politicos-toxic-new-owners?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source= …
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Party at Axel's house!
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What next? Politico is going to have Page 3 girls or something like that?
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Not yet, but I’ll keep this in my back pocket!
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Wait, wait…”when the expenses for the job she’d been placed in exceeded her salary…” Wat?
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