The influence of this is visible at the very start of the article, which is a submarine advertisement for Berlin as a tech location, where Springer has many businesses that look for candidates from a large pool of developers who they then massively underpay.
In this case, it's an interesting stroll through Zuckerberg's stated priorities of the moment. We're all free to re-filter the interview as we see fit to adjust for Springer spin and Zuckerberg spin. Getting vexed about the full range of Springer activities at this particular moment seems like a waste of good cortisol.
I don't know anything about this company and I see no reason not to trust you on that. But since this interview doesnt' ask us to rely on Axel Springer's reputation, or trust it's word on something, how is this relevant?
I'm basically saying: If you're gonna read this, bring a big salt shaker.
Note for example the praise on Berlin as a tech location. Note how effusive it is. Now consider this: Starting offers for developers with 5 years experience at Idealo (property of Axel Springer) in 2010 were 20000 € per year.
I don't know any details for other things mentioned in that interview, but i would expect similar things to be "left out" as well.
Besides that, your point is valid, but aren't any kind of awards always about marketing, new connections, brand recognition etc ?
http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/beruf-und-buero/buer...
Good luck hiring someone for 20.000 per year.
Oh, thanks for your valuable insights. Please send us a note once you found a form of human communication that can not be interpreted as "marketing purpose" or "hidden motives".
> This newspaper [Bild a newspaper Axel Springer is publishing] is a vile institution. It's wrong to read it. Someone who contributes to it is socially unacceptable. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to their editors. One has to be as unfriendly to them as is allowed by law. They're bad humans, that do wrong things.
It doesn't matter what they're doing, it's that Axel Springer is involved that's the problem and in any discussion that involves enough Germans someone will point it out.
The communist Baader-Meinhof terrorists bombed three targets:
1. US Army bases, for the Vietnam War.
2. German police offices, for covering up Nazi crimes.
3. Axel Springer buildings, for their newspapers.
"Bad reputation" is more than an understatement.
Most German newspapers are very bad on a journalistic/technologic level. Might be caused by the small userbase and the language barrier that shields away international competition.
Utterly disgusting and borderline criminal.
Of course Bild ran with the least favourable interpretation of the words above and smeared one of the most important, loved and loving people on german TV.
The claim that media owned by the Axel Springer Group or BILD specifically promotes lies more often than other publications seems rather biased to me.
On top of all that they have a large influence on politics and politicians in Germany. Much larger than any other newspaper in Germany.
(And hey, at least nobody is blowing up their offices any more.)