Perhaps you’ve heard the news that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had been sold to Lee Enterprises, a national publisher who tends to stick to the Midwest. And yes, the rest of the P-D siblings are coming along as owner Pulitzer Inc. is included in the acquisition. For those of you not so big on media consolidation, it should be noted that Lee would become the fourth largest newspaper publisher, so says the New York Times‘ Jacques Steinberg.
Thankfully for the rest of us, some of the folks involved in the situation were having a little fun with the (not yet completed at the time of publication) purchase. Check out the P-D’s Dan O’Neill, who writes about (among other things) the word that staffers were “banding together” to purchase the newspaper for themselves, in an effort to keep it “family run.” O’Neill says that “if there are employees talking seriously about anteing up to buy a metropolitan newspaper, there is a union scale with which I am not familiar.” Ain’t that the truth.
