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Jari Mäkäräinen criticized an article in Helsingin Sanomat and said he had made corrections to it. According to him, the nonfiction writer Ari Haasio and Mattila had suggested that Finnish identity was ambiguous, compared the mistrust faced by evacuees from Karelia to current fears directed at Muslims, and stated that everyone was a descendant of immigrants. Mäkäräinen wrote that migration was an old phenomenon, but migrations from different times could not be equated. He noted that the first people arrived in what is now Finland about 11,000 years ago and believed that this did not provide a basis for equating the current migration from Afghanistan or Somalia with the arrivals of earlier traders, craftsmen, or industrial founders. He described Finlayson as an actor that built factories in capital-poor Finland, brought technology, and created jobs. Mäkäräinen compared him to a Mohammed coming from Somalia, who he described as illiterate and dependent on Kela support. He believed these examples illustrated different types of migration and claimed that there were differences in education, employment, cultural distance, and criminality. He also claimed that those coming from Afghanistan were overrepresented in rape statistics. Regarding the evacuees from Karelia, Mäkäräinen wrote that they had come from within Finland, spoke Finnish, and shared key features of Finnish culture. He said they had faced mistrust and derogatory name-calling, but believed they differed from current arrivals from Afghanistan, for example, in terms of adaptation, work ethic, and use of social security. Mäkäräinen also denied the comparison made by Haasio and Mattila between 19th-century antisemitism and the Somali discussions of the 1990s. According to him, the groups were not similar, and Jews had mostly integrated well. He argued that current migrations should be evaluated based on their impacts on employment, crime, and social security. Finally, he wrote that the continuity of society required, in his opinion, the adaptation of newcomers. #maahanmuutto #suomalaisuus #kulttuuri (translated)

Katariina Souri wrote that the price of food had risen by 25.1 percent since August 2021, while the rise in other consumer prices was around 18.1 percent according to her. She referred to a news article from Helsingin Sanomat and an estimate from researchers at the Natural Resources Institute Finland, which indicated that the necessity of food reduced the pressure on stores to lower prices. Souri noted that HS had not addressed the concentration of trade as a reason. According to Souri, the combined market share of the S-group and Kesko in the retail grocery sector was 82.5 percent, with the S-group controlling nearly half of the grocery market. She wrote that Finnish trade was the most concentrated in Europe and that the S and K groups were among the ten most profitable trading entities in the world. According to her, the combined operating profit of the S-group and SOK Corporation had grown from 280 million euros in 2021 to 495 million euros in 2025. In the first half of the current year, the profit had improved by 20 percent compared to the previous year. Souri claimed that the price received by primary producers and the profit development of the S-group had not progressed in the same proportion. According to her, a farmer or rancher was left with approximately 4–12 cents from a normal food euro, depending on the product, while most of the share went to the trade and the tax authorities. She considered the agricultural subsidies to effectively flow significantly into the profits and growth of the S-group and criticized the influence of the chains on zoning and legislation. Souri assessed that the duopoly in trade weakened the position of small businesses and free competition and restricted innovations and consumer choices. She wrote that politicians had failed to intervene in the situation. Additionally, she reported that Pellervo Economic Research had predicted at the end of September that food prices would rise in the following year as well. #ruoka #hintanousu #kauppa (translated)

Vesa Kallionpää wrote that Hesari was interested in the price of diesel in the United States but not in Ivalo. According to him, the price difference was more than 1.5 euros to Finland's detriment. Kallionpää also criticized the idea that expensive fuel would be a good thing because of the prevalence of electric cars, stating that agriculture and the national economy would suffer from it. https://t.co/DFXm3eQSdA #diesel #polttoaine #sähköautot (translated)

Klaus estimated that this stunt by Helsingin Sanomat would also go down in the annals as an example of media's leftist bias. He wrote that the particular X post had received a million views and that few Finnish X posts reached the same. #media #Suomi #vasemmistolaisuus (translated)

Keijo Kaarisade wrote that Sixseven Korkboy did not make it to the finals of the high school economic guru competition. According to Kaarisade, Korkboy had stated that adjustments were necessary, but had focused on listing things that should not be cut. He mentioned that Helsingin Sanomat had offered Korkboy a consolation prize of columnist work and called him a moral winner. #talous #kilpailu #voitto (translated)

Mikko wrote that in the 1990s, children's rapes were not talked about according to him, even though everyone knew about Uncle Jammu. He compared this to the current situation and claimed that by opening the Helsingin Sanomat, one encountered daily news about taxi drivers or YouTube rappers who had sexually abused children in the restroom of Tripla. #lastenraiskaukset #mediakritiikki #yhdistele (translated)

Jocka Träskbäck asked where Antti was and wrote that the media generally sought the party chairman to explain things in the midst of the scandal. According to him, however, the rules were not the same for everyone: instead of current journalism, Helsingin Sanomat had published a ten-page advertisement about the chairman in the Monthly Supplement. Träskbäck noted that in his opinion, the article did not have the mandatory indication of "ideological cooperation." #journalismi #poliitika #Suomi (translated)

Yaron Nadbornik wrote that from the articles in Helsingin Sanomat covering the foreign elections, there might have been an impression that the victory of the right-wing candidate was portrayed as a coincidence, a surge of extremist groups, or the result of foolish decisions. In contrast, the success of the left-wing candidate appeared to him as a return of the world to the right track and a relief for journalists after years of injustices or foolishness. He attached to his writing an article about the second round of the Brazilian presidential elections, where the headline indicated that the right-wing Bolsonaro was in the lead. https://t.co/qKugJcZYuv #politiikka #vaalit #medianäkyvyys (translated)

Lucia described the typical reader of Helsingin Sanomat as a 25–40-year-old, highly educated urban woman who lived in neighborhoods like Kallio, Käpylä, Kumpula, Pakila, Kalasatama, Töölö, or Lauttasaari. She noted that this woman would usually vote for the Greens, the Left Alliance, or the SDP and would frequent brunches, bars, and the Flow festival. According to Lucia, the woman she described might be in a relationship, live in a community garden cabin, and be the mother of one or two children. She listed names like Alvar, Oliver, Ariel, Kuura, and Kaura for the children. Lucia mentioned that the woman preferred public transportation but accepted her partner's expensive car, even if she suffered from climate anxiety and flying shame. The woman might also have a small dog. The author claimed that such a reader did not know any voters of the Finns Party and might consider her rural uncle, who had voted for the party at times, to be peculiar. She speculated that the woman worked in a field where she could aim to make the world a better place. Lucia called this a reader profile and target group for Helsingin Sanomat, whose interests and views, according to her, the paper's journalists anticipated. She wrote that HS did not aim for objective or neutral reporting, nor was it an agenda-driven media outlet. According to her, the paper's target group did not encompass all people regardless of their background, lifestyle, or viewpoints. She compared HS to a mirror held up by journalists so that the reader could be satisfied with what they saw, and concluded that the reader of the described profile was not the same as the writer of the piece. #Helsinki #ilmastoahdistus #lukijaprofiili (translated)

Pjotr Debatt suggested that many under 30 are currently not subscribing to HS, as otherwise the campaign would clearly be loss-making in his view. He interpreted the situation as a sign of a small panic in the newspaper. https://t.co/Xmk8Gq29kk #uutiset #media #nuoriso (translated)

Hannu Järvinen wrote that Helsingin Sanomat was concerned about daycares and used a derogatory description referring to developing countries. According to him, the concern was valid, but there was no need to worry about the Helsinki German School or the Helsinki French-Finnish School. https://t.co/AJTwXwFWsQ #päiväkoti #koulu #kehitys (translated)

Mikko Vuorenpää wrote that Helsingin Sanomat had reported that two Finnish men had raped a minor in a shopping mall restroom. According to Vuorenpää, an interviewed expert assessed the men's motive as being the misogyny that is spreading online. https://t.co/JGUxIUQOs1 #naisviha #suomi #rikollisuus (translated)

The journalist who was convicted of treason by Hesarin spread Alpo Rusi's investigation material to the newspaper, tarnishing the entire Rusi's career. He was never charged with anything, but his name was thus sullied. It's a bit the same with you now. #journalismi #uutiset #suomi (translated)

A 12-year-old was raped three times in the bathroom of Tripla. According to an expert from Hesari, the act is related to "the growing hatred against women online." According to Iltalehti, the perpetrators were Mohamed and his friends. https://t.co/9bsFR90lG3 #naisviham #turvallisuus #rikollisuus (translated)

Helsingin Sanomat did a big piece on the imam of Myyrmäki. Hesari would have had a good opportunity to ask what politically active @SaidAwmusse thinks about the application of Sharia law in Finland or even about women's clothing. But they didn't ask. The reason is likely that Hesari wants to portray Aw-Mussen as nice, jovial, and oppressed, which a Saudi Arabia-trained imam is certainly not. #Myyrmäki #Sharia #HelsinginSanomat (translated)

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