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Earnings per Common Share (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 24, 2012
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted [Table Text Block] | The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted loss per common share:
|  | 13 Weeks Ended |  | 39 Weeks Ended |
| (Thousands of Dollars and Shares, Except Per Share Data) | June 24 2012 |  | June 26 2011 |  | June 24 2012 |  | June 26 2011 |
| Loss attributable to Lee Enterprises, Incorporated: | (1,473 | ) | (155,517 | ) | (13,544 | ) | (138,048 | )
| Weighted average common shares | 51,731 |  | 44,897 |  | 48,733 |  | 44,897 |
| Less non-vested restricted Common Stock | — |  | — |  | — |  | 87 |
| Basic average common shares | 51,731 |  | 44,897 |  | 48,733 |  | 44,810 |
| Dilutive stock options and restricted Common Stock | — |  | — |  | — |  | — |
| Diluted average common shares | 51,731 |  | 44,897 |  | 48,733 |  | 44,810 |
| Loss per common share: |  |  |  |
| Basic | (0.03 | ) | (3.46 | ) | (0.28 | ) | (3.08 | )
| Diluted | (0.03 | ) | (3.46 | ) | (0.28 | ) | (3.08 | )

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