Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy

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Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy

(Composite / Photos: Shutterstock)WE’RE GOING TO GET LEANER, hungrier, better, more efficient—everyone who has worked in a newsroom large or small has heard some version of this speech. I remember hearing a variation of it at my first newspaper job in 2010. I was just an intern there. A rookie who had no idea what all this meant. But I soon found out.Over the next year at that paper—the Journal Star in my hometown of Peoria, Illinois—I watched a…