My old boss at South Dakota Public TV, Larry Miller at the
Black Hills Monitor,
has a thoughtful piece on the dismal status of Lee Enterprises stock.Lee owns the Rapid City Journal and a number of other local weeklies as well as a number of other dailies across the country.
Larry notes how the stock has dropped from $14.91/share in early 2008 to a pre-Holiday low of 30 cents/share. Lee has been delisted form the NYSE.
Larry is more hopeful that I am that Lee can get back to profitability. I think holding newspaper stocks in 2009 is like owning buggy whip stocks in 1909. There's not much upside.
Anyway, go read Larry's excellent article.
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