St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Sale

NewsMax.Com ^ | 11-19-04 | AP

[paladinan]

ST. LOUIS - Shares of Pulitzer Inc. surged nearly 16 percent Monday, the day after the newspaper publisher said it was considering a possible sale or other options to increase shareholder value.

The company, which publishes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Arizona Star and about a dozen other daily newspapers, said in a statement Sunday that no decisions had been made and no agreements had been reached. Pulitzer said it was exploring "a range of strategic alternatives" and had retained Goldman, Sachs & Co. as financial adviser to assist in its review.

[paladinan]

This is the liberal rag that quoted Archbishop Burke--one of a handful of bishops who've stood up to pro-aborts--as saying, "It's okay to vote for pro-choice politicians".

Memo to Archbishop Burke... BUY THAT SUCKER!! Mortgage the Diocese, buy it, shut it down, and turn it into a nice, pond retirement home for ducks, or something...

[BizzeeMom]

Hoping someone conservative buys it! I want to be able to buy and read a respectable paper and the St. Louis Post isn't fit to line a bird cage.

[kellynla]

Maybe Rupert Murdock will buy it...

I wish Murdock would buy the Los Angeles Times! LOL
Or at least start a new paper out here...
I sure miss the Los Angeles Herald Examiner...

[Pointblank]

Maybe we should have a fund drive and buy it. We can rename it "The Free Press" and spew our conservative agenda. We can one by one take the press from the liberal establishment.

[CounterCounterCulture]

It'd be an investment for our future. When people are educated and not indoctrinated, we can turn "blue" counties into "red" counties and finally break the stranglehold of socialist thinking.

[Mulch]

I stopped delivery of the Post-Dispatch. Saved me the effort of walking from the curb to the garbage can.

[bilhosty]

"Maybe we should have a fund drive and buy it."

I agree an important liberal paper in an important swing state. I got 5 bucks I can contribute. How much does everyone else have?

[Joe Republc]

SOLD today!!!!

Does this mean it gets better or worse?

-- Joe

[bilhosty]

It obviously means it gets better. I couldn't understand how my user name got on this thread writing something I had no memory of writing until,lol< I saw the date. You must be going way back into archives my friend.

[Joe Republc]

Well, I was just doing a search to see if any Freepers had written about the Post-Dispatch sale. I haven't seen a thread yet just on the sale, have you?

-- Joe

[bilhosty]

Just did a search on google and theys aid it had been sold to lee enterprises on ja 30 2005. We must be the only ones on this thread.

[writmeister]

Is it even possible for the PD to get worse?

[bilhosty]

It might get better. Lee Enterprises is a chain of small newspapers which taken together was actually larger then Pulitzer. It appears that most of them who endorsed candidates endorsed Bush. According to a site I saw Lee Enterprises says it does not interfere with editorial content so it will probably stay liberal. But at least there is hope. Certainly if Lee Enterprises changes Management.
http://www.lee.net/newspapers/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_U.S._presidential_election%2C_2004

[bilhosty]

It might get better. Lee Enterprises is a chain of small newspapers which taken together was actually larger then Pulitzer. It appears that most of them who endorsed candidates endorsed Bush. According to a site I saw Lee Enterprises says it does not interfere with editorial content so it will probably stay liberal. But at least there is hope. Certainly if Lee Enterprises changes Management.
http://www.lee.net/newspapers/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_U.S._presidential_election%2C_2004