LA Times makes changes to op-ed pages

Fresno Bee & AP ^ | November 11, 2005 | AP Staff

[Amerigomag]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Times is changing the look and content of its opinion-editorial pages, a plan that includes dropping Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez and longtime columnist Robert Scheer.

The changes come three months after former political commentator and columnist Michael Kinsley resigned as the paper's editorial and opinion editor. Kinsley spent 15 months at the Times and was replaced by Martinez.

[Amerigomag]

The good news is always buried on Friday evening.

The message. The LA Times will go belly up if it continues its headlong dash to the left.

[wagglebee]

The LA Times will go belly up if it continues its headlong dash to the left.

You talk as if sometime in recent history they were in the "center."

[SteveMcKing]

Gotta hit that "under 95" demographic.....

[Publius]

Robert Scheer was one of the founders of Ramparts, the magazine of the Sixties that defined the New Left.

[JRios1968]

Robert Scheer dropped by the LA Slimes? Maybe now the paper's collective IQ will finally go into double-digits!

[DLfromthedesert]

Michael Ramirez is the BEST political cartoonist.

[speedy]

Exactly. Ramirez was the only thing the LA Times had going for it.

[Crazieman]

Wha? They think dropping Ramirez will improve the paper?

Ramirez is AWESOME! He's on the ball as much as Cox and Forkum! What the hell is wrong with them?

[jimbo123]

[garyhope]

Robert Scheer, American hating lefty commie traitor. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[quantim]

Too little, too late. they probably have more paper rolls on hand than they can burn. And since circulation is down they're sitting on expensive dead paper inventory even before you get to editorials.

[Bernard Marx]

Robert Scheer dropped by the LA Slimes? Maybe now the paper's collective IQ will finally go into double-digits!

I doubt it unless they also get rid of his radical feminist/marxist wife who has built a cozy little power structure there. I imagine Scheer has a golden parachute that will allow him to continue to live in the luxury provided by the capitalist running dogs he professes to hate.

[Torie]

The LA Time endorsed the redistricting, teacher tenure (I think) and union dues initiatives. It didn't matter a wit. Newpaper editorials don't matter a wit. Nobody reads them, or if they do, cares about them, anymore. Cheers.

[CFC__VRWC]

The LA Time endorsed the redistricting, teacher tenure (I think) and union dues initiatives.

The only reason the Times endorsed those measures was because they knew the measures were going down to defeat, so they figured they could pretend to be "balanced" by endorsing them with no harm done. As far as they were concerned, the only thing the special election was about was destroying Arnold Schwarzenegger - all else was a very distant second.

as far as Scheer being gone from their pages, don't bet on it. I'll bet he's already signed to a syndication deal, and that the LAT will continue to run his columns by picking them up from the syndicate.

[exit82]

Like rearranging the deck chairs on a ship that has hit an iceberg.....

[fat city]

Hehehe- yeah, Ramparts and Evergreen were glossy versions of the East Village Other.

[Torie]

You like I must be a student of Machiavelli, although I suspect drew different conclusions about what was his essential message. But then the guy is as complex as Machiavellian machinations itself Cheers.

[guitfiddlist]

"Maybe if we moved the chairs to the aft deck...what do you think?"

[ncountylee]

Robert Scheer is far to the left of both Stalin and Mao.

[Sam Cree]

"I've been a punching bag for Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh for years and I think the paper finally collapsed," said Scheer, a self-described liberal"

The truth is that Scheer is not a liberal, but a hard socialist like Hillary. The paper moved up a tiny notch in my credibility rating by firing him. Let him go get a job at ANSWER or someplace along those lines.