How's this for loyalty? Lee Enterprises canned the reporter who took a bullet while covering the city council meeting in Kirkwood in which resident Cookie Thornton shot and killed five city officials. Reporter Todd Smith was shot in the hand and has since endured two surgeries. Lee Enterprises which owns the Suburban Journal Newspapers and St. Louis Post-Dispatch among other newspapers, last week told Smith his services are no longer needed.
This story is a bit old but the Riverfront Times Kristin Hinman has a great post in the RFT blog at this site:
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