 The editorial position of the "Globe-Democrat" was more conservative and blue-collar-oriented than position of the "Post-Dispatch".In 1962 Bauman hired Patrick J. Buchanan, newly graduated from the University of Missouri's school of journalism, to the editorial page staff.A special congressional committee investigating efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that a March 30, 1968 "Globe-Democrat" editorial critical of Dr. King was inspired and ghostwritten by the FBI, which considered the newspaper’s publisher to be “especially cooperative to the bureau.” While recognizing that the "Globe-Democrat"’s editorial was protected by the First Amendment, the Committee was highly critical of “the ease with which the Bureau had been able to use the newspaper for its counterintelligence initiatives.” The Committee found that, not only did the FBI’s conduct “contribute to the hostile climate that surrounded Dr. King, it was morally reprehensible, illegal, felonious, and unconstitutional.”
In 1983, the Pulitzers and Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. entered into an agreement under which the "Globe-Democrat" would fold, and Newhouse News Service would receive a share of the resulting profits of the Post-Dispatch.