YOUR LETTERS: Holding my nose
I held my nose and voted my 16 and 1/2 shares in favor of retaining all three of the Lee Enterprises board members up for retention.
In previous years, I have always voted against Lee’s board, in protest of the company starving the Post-Dispatch of needed resources and giving the corporate bosses big bonuses.
This year, my vote was against Alden Global Capital – the vulture hedge fund trying to take control of the Post-Dispatch and Lee.
Alden is, by far, an even worse steward than Lee.
Lee has been a slow death for our newsroom and readers.
Alden would be a fast death.
As bad as Lee is, at least it wants to be in the newspaper business.
Alden is essentially a real estate company that wants to sell off everything not nailed down.
MICHAEL SORKIN
United Media Guild
Retired Post-Dispatch investigative reporter
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