France's far-right leader Jordan Bardella said Friday he had cancelled his speech at a right-wing meeting in Washington after a "gesture alluding to Nazi ideology" by conservative firebrand Steve Bannon.
they have been actively supporting for the current CDU-front runner in bevoming the CDUs candidate over more moderate options (Merz is on the right of the CDU, the big conservative party in Germany: https://bildblog.de/104902/bild-am-rande-des-merzinfarkts/
this was their front page just now (we have a national election tomorrow):
There is honestly a lot more I could put here. In Germany the Bild is well known as a populist right wing paper. It is not exactly new either. A famous quote from the Punk-Rock song ‘Lasse Redn’ (2008) when describing the papers content is “Angst Hass Titten und der Wetterbericht” (fear, hate, tits and the weather). The common hastag when talking about them in left-leaning circles is #haltdiefresseBild (shut up Bild). There even is a Browser extension dedicated to block all Springer owned or published products.
While some of its other papers seem more nuanced at fist glance, they often push similar narratives packaged for their respective audiences.
How so? (Not trying to start an argument; am genuinely curious for sources because I found it hard to find info when I googled this)
Edit: not the politico being owned by Springer, but Springer being partially responsible for the rightward shift
Springer is the publisher of Bild and Welt (among others) , two major German papers (Bild is the biggest in Germany).
Especially Bild is known for its right wing populist tendencies
Some more recent examples (all in German for obvious reasons)
There is honestly a lot more I could put here. In Germany the Bild is well known as a populist right wing paper. It is not exactly new either. A famous quote from the Punk-Rock song ‘Lasse Redn’ (2008) when describing the papers content is “Angst Hass Titten und der Wetterbericht” (fear, hate, tits and the weather). The common hastag when talking about them in left-leaning circles is #haltdiefresseBild (shut up Bild). There even is a Browser extension dedicated to block all Springer owned or published products.
While some of its other papers seem more nuanced at fist glance, they often push similar narratives packaged for their respective audiences.