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CBS’ 60 Minutes Investigates Private Equity’s Impact on Democracy: “Local newsrooms strained by budget-slashing financial firms”
60 Minutes reported how hedge funds and other financial firms – including private equity – now own nearly a third of the daily newspapers in the US. These new owners “are often committed not to headlines and deadlines, but to…