American Capitalism #2

A good paragraph here on vulture capitalism. Add Clearchannel, Toys-r-us and Remington to the recent list.

Clearchannel took over America's local radio, Bain Capital took over Clearchannel, Clearchannel went bankrupt / Boing Boing:

As I've written, the demise of newsmedia can't be blamed on tech -- rather, it was the combination of technology and deregulated, neoliberal capitalism, which saw media companies merged and acquired, vertically and horizontally integrated, with quality lowered, staff outsourced and assets stripped, leaving them vulnerable to technological shocks, after all their in-house experts were turned into contractors who drifted away, their physical plant sold and leased back, their war-chests drained by vulture capitalists who loaded them up with debt that acted like a millstone around their necks as they strove to maneuver their way out of their economic conundrum.

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