Wikimedia CommonsNegotiations between the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's corporate parent and the local union that represents the paper's staff have so deteriorated that union officials have agreed to free up $500,000 in union assets for tarring and feathering. The St. Louis Newspaper Guild is now seeking P-D employees willing to deploy a variety of smear tactics against Lee Enterprises, from badmouthing the Iowa-based company in the Twitter-verse, to pressuring P-D advertisers to come out i