Posted 6:08 PM by Gene

TRUTH AND JUSTICE PREVAIL IN ST. LOUIS!!!!!!!!!!

When Lee Enterprises Inc. agreed to purchase Pulitzer Inc. for $1.46 billion, it also agreed that the flagship St. Louis Post-Dispatch will keep its longstanding liberal editorial SLANT [whoooooooooooops! --Ed.] for at least the next five years, according to the purchase agreement mailed to Pulitzer shareholders Friday.

OR:

The Post-Dispatch platform statement, adopted in 1911, includes the pledge that the newspaper "will always fight for progress and reform [unless the progressive reformers are CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS], never tolerate injustice or corruption [unless DEMOCRATS do it], always fight demagogues of all parties [mostly THEIRS], never belong to any party [indiscreetly], always oppose privileged classes [except for our profession and show-business] and public plunderers [unless we have a hand in it], never lack sympathy with the poor [provided their incomes equal ours], always remain devoted to the public welfare [but not so much that we have to REPORT on it], never be satisfied with merely printing news [we've got a WEB SITE], always be drastically independent [well, drastic anyway], never be afraid to attack wrong [especially when WE'RE right], whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty [BIG MEDIA and politically-correct victim groups excepted]."

Now THAT's a PLATFORM STATEMENT!