Good piece in the Guardian recently about Axel Springer's embrace of authoritarian regimes such as Hungary and the United States, but it really annoys me to read phrases like "critics say" from journalists who really should have the guts to state as fact that the German publisher's "goals are sometimes undermined by the pages of his own titles."

It's not hard to look at what Springer claims and what it actually does, without drawing on outside "critics."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/08/how-axel-springer-germany-mathias-doepfner-us-political

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