PSA: Be careful with Euronews
PSA: Be careful with Euronews
Euronews has had a new editorial director for the past 3 weeks and he comes from Axel Springer's German tabloid Bild.
Quote via Politico (ironically—owned by Springer):
"Strunz declarations on Twitter are worrying because this is not what you’d expect from the boss of Euronews, especially when he applauds [far right German party] AfD results as a sign of functioning democracy," src
After Trump's victory, Euronews shared, uncommented, a congratulations video from Orbán to Trump on its Instagram feed.
There is now an open letter from the Union representatives voicing concern about the staff's journalistic freedoms (in French).
An Orban-linked group acquired Euronews back in the spring, reportedly by using public funds provided by the Hungarian state. I was surprised that until now, there appeared to be no visible changes in the editorial policy (the outlet has been very critical of Russia, China, Hungary, etc.). But now things appear to change.
idk, i visited them daily and i don't remember why exactly, but i deleted the app and all bookmarks to their site early this year. it started to feel biased and depressing.
It's almost like the plutocrats of the world have been using their consolidation and monopolisation of media ownership as a psychological warfare tool to convince the workers to act against their best interests.
Does anyone have any recommendations where to find good independent journalism covering Europe, considering the increasing problems of both Politico and Euronews?
I've started listening to @europeanspodcast@mastodon.social, which is fantastic, but it would be nice to complement it with a newspaper of sorts.
euractiv.com is pretty good, but also privatly owned.
arte.tv news format journal is great, but only video and German and French public broadcasting. However they are very willing to have shows not talking about either country. However it is French and German and not English
theguardian.com is independent, but mixed in its reporting standards. Sometimes amazing sometimes just okay.
Arte does have some English, Spanish, Polish, and Italian stuff but it's quite limited and generally only subtitles. Other languages if they happened to have bought it from somewhere else, say a documentary about Kafka where you can select the original Czech audio. News won't be among the English subtitled stuff but there's a good amount of documentaries, background and big-picture stuff. Not just society and politics, all kinds of topics.
Just go browse. And, separately, a metric fuckton of live concerts from all genres.
Depends on what you mean by independent.
dw.com Deutsche Welle is EN German state sponsored
True - I guess I just need to be able to safely trust their journalistic integrity, it doesn't need to be completely independent in a strict sense.
I should absolutely start reading DW, thanks for the reminder! Though their coverage of the Amsterdam unrest does not seem immediately encouraging. I guess it is German after all. At least the Guardian did a decent job on that.
So, reading between the lines, he didn’t leave Bild on good terms and Springer is trying to torpedo his new job.
Euronews is still owned by a Portuguese fascist with ties to Orban. Their reporters have done a good job at keeping it fair, but that makes the editorial director much more dangerous for the current standards.
That is possible too. But the union representatives complaining are probably not bought by Springer.