The Day Bureaucrat wrote that Saska Saarikoski, the head of the editorial office of Helsingin Sanomat, had worked for five years at the Ydin magazine published by the Sadankomitea and Rauhanliitto, and previously at Ylioppilaslehti, which the author described as almost equally left-wing. According to the author, Esa Mäkinen, the development director of HS and a member of the editorial management team, had previously served as the editor-in-chief and worked at Kansan Uutiset as well as being the editor-in-chief of Ylioppilaslehti. He claimed that Mäkinen had been suspected in the Viestikoekeskus case of revealing state secrets but had avoided charges like editor-in-chief Kaius Niemi by remaining silent during the investigation's interrogations. The Day Bureaucrat described the HS editorial team as otherwise left-wing as well and noted that the backgrounds of Saarikoski and Mäkinen stood out particularly. According to him, other newspapers do not report on their backgrounds in communist media because about 80 percent of journalists were themselves left-wing and shared a similar value system and background. #media #journalismi #vasemmistolisuus (translated)
