McKay Coppins

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McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

According to the former executive, Heath Freeman, Alden's president, once suggested in a meeting that the firm's newspapers could get rid of all their full-time reporters and rely entirely on freelancers. (Freeman denied this through a spokesperson.) https://t.co/tR4OR2tHJo — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 14, 2021

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McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Randall Smith, a pioneer of "vulture capitalism" in the 1980s, now owns multiple mansions in Palm Beach, where he is a major Trump donor. One of his earliest forays into the media sector was... revealing: https://t.co/tR4OR2tHJo https://t.co/xltBmySB1o — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 14, 2021

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I spoke to Freeman, and was struck by how little he seemed to care about Alden's journalistic reputation. At one point I asked him to name some recent stories from his papers that he especially liked (a softball!) and he declined to answer on the record. https://t.co/tR4OR2tHJo — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 14, 2021