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Friend,

Jim Hightower, America's #1 populist, is one of our most important
voices challenging corporate power.

But when he called out the Wall Street hedge fund scavengers destroying
the newspaper industry, his syndicator refused to distribute the column,
fearing backlash from those same Wall Street hucksters.

What made this piece, out of all of Hightower's razor sharp
commentaries, so far beyond the pale? He named names—and he didn't pull
punches:

Hedge-fund scavengers with names like Digital First and GateHouse . . .
know nothing about journalism and care less, for they're ruthless Wall
Street profiteers out to grab big bucks fast by slashing the
journalistic and production staffs of each paper, voiding all employee
benefits (from pensions to free coffee in the breakroom), shriveling the
paper's size and news content, selling the presses and other assets,
tripling the price of their inferior product—then declaring bankruptcy,
shutting down the paper, and auctioning off the bones before moving on
to plunder another town's paper.

This is how the corporate media silences anyone who fundamentally
challenges the capitalist power structure.

But you better believe Common Dreams ran that column—and featured it on
our home page. We exist to lift up the voices of those who fundamentally
challenge that corporate power structure—not just in the newspaper
industry, but in every aspect of our economy.

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