Privat Öga

Privat Öga (: Private Eye), or simply PO, is a Ostben newspaper. Founded in 1961, PO has one of the highest newspaper circulations in Ostboland. Web content for PO is available through PrivateEyeOnline, which is overseen by a separate publishing department. As of 2020 the newspapers holding company, PO Group, recorded revenues of over 10.5 billion kr, increasing compared to its rivals. PO is also notable in that current editor, Naima Land, became the first editor of a major Ostben newspaper in 2016.

Privat Öga's current slogan, "We Report, You Judge" is said to embody the newspapers' combination of, combining "factual reporting" on with items like , sports, and broadly  stories. The paper its reliance on  to collect  and engages in atypical  to, deliver its  on items it deems in the. Privat Öga has been embroiled in regarding, but has  against all legal allegations.

Traditional media outlets question Privat Öga's, and accuse it of and  to. Other, however, contend that the paper is itself a of  and  within the. PO is with the public, due in large part to the paper's  investigative reports into  and. The editorial board of PO contends it's, which both public opinion.

"Pure Propyganda"
In 2014, the now President of Propyrgia, Stávros Diamantídis, was reported saying that Privat Öga "was not worth publishing" in Propyrgia as it was "only an Ostben gossip rag." Diamantídis denied making such a statement, but it occurred at a time when PO was planning a major expansion into the native language market. Sales of PO in Propýrgia were low, so the managing editors decided there was little to risk if they "poked fun" at the country. Shortly after Diamantídis was elected President, Privat Öga ran a front page article titled "Shocking Development: ", which argued that sales of the paper in Propyrgia were minimal because Propyrgia was, in fact,.

Soon a series of bi-monthly columns appeared under the title Pure Propyganda: The Great Nation Swindle, which outlined in detail how dictators in Eastern Artemia had fooled almost the entire population of the planet into believing that Propyrgia existed. The columns argued that the very concept of Propyrgia, a stable, prosperous, democratic nation in Eastern Artemia which respected human rights, was so flagrantly "absurd" and ran entirely counter to "the regions natural tendencies of rejecting civilization" that it had to be made up. Instead, the columns argued that the states of Eastern Artemia all  together to "create the  of Propyrgia. The columns go on to argue that these Eastern Artemian states wished to frighten their citizens by saying how Propyrgia's "" would . The peoples of Eastern Artemia were therefore all to happy to blindly support,  governments which promised to protect them against "the Propy menace."

Accordingly, the Pure Propyganda columns show that Propyrgia is actually an elaborate film set, and the "citizens" of Propyrgia are just paid actors from Poja. However, due to poor Eastern Artemian script writing, the Propy film sets are constantly modified and turnover among extras is high. This purportedly explains when they go to visit.