Word: post-dispatch
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Transit strikes, blizzards and brownouts can make urban life an ordeal, but nothing hurts a city in quite so many subtle ways as a newspaper strike. St. Louis, bereft of the morning Globe-Democrat and the afternoon Post-Dispatch for five weeks, was painfully counting new losses with each passing...
Like Locusts. The biggest loss for St. Louis, though, is the news itself. Whether a reader is interested in sports or stocks, Watergate or the city council, he has been having trouble keeping abreast. The Globe-Democrat and the Post-Dispatch have a combined circulation of over 600,000. The supply of alternative information sources falls far short of demand...
...Louis found itself without a daily newspaper last week. Teamster Local 610 struck the Post-Dispatch after negotiations between the paper and its truck drivers and delivery men deadlocked. Wages were at issue, but the chief dispute involved the job security of the 32 men who heave bundles of papers on and off the trucks. A new automated delivery system can do much of their work. The Post-Dispatch offered to train the men for other jobs; Teamster negotiators said no, that the men must remain in their present slots. When the Newspaper Guild supported the Teamster action, the rival...
...Barbra Streisand were there, as were Eugene Carson Blake, former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. So were ten Democratic Senators and twelve black members of the House of Representatives, as well as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and (would you believe?) Joe Namath...
...discussion." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker pointed out that the original Justice Department inquiry was hardly vigorous. Therefore, both Justice and the Senate "need to know that an independent press is holding their feet to the fire." The Milwaukee Journal, the Chicago Sun-Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch all argued along a similar vein: that bringing out the full truth must take priority over assuring successful criminal prosecutions...