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Posted on 11/15/2005 8:59:23 AM PST by LdSentinal
NEW YORK Los Angeles Times readers upset with the dropping of Robert Scheer's column plan to picket outside the newspaper's building Tuesday at noon.
"We think he was fired totally for political reasons," Karen Pomer, a media activist who helped organize the demonstration, told E&P Monday. "Now they don't have anyone who covers national issues in the same way. The Times needs a full spectrum of voices. It's becoming insipid."
To make the point about blandness, demonstrators plan to distribute slices of Wonder bread at the Tuesday picket.
Scheer believes he was dropped at least partly because Times Publisher Jeff Johnson didn't like his column's anti-Iraq War commentary and other progressive opinions (E&P Online, Nov. 11). Pomer said a delegation of protestors will request a meeting with Johnson.
When asked if she had an estimate for Tuesday's turnout, Pomer said she did not. Pomer noted that some people might not be able to leave their jobs to attend the demonstration, but that organizers wanted to respond as quickly as possible to the dropping of Scheer's column (which is distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate).
Pomer added that a number of readers have cancelled their Times subscriptions. "Robert Scheer has a big following," she said. "Many readers are just fed up."
According to Pomer, protestors are upset not only with the dropping of Scheer, but with what they feel is the Times' poor coverage of anti-Iraq War events in its circulation area.
A Times spokesperson could not be immediately reached for comment about the planned picket, about how many subscribers might have cancelled, and about whether or not Johnson would meet with the protestors.
Who will speak for Stalinists now?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I'm sure David Horowitz will have something interesting to say. Sheer is beyond a mere leftist, he's part of the paranoid left fringe, and he actually admires and prefers the North Korean approach to governance.
Yeah, and those readers are conservatives and are the major reason the LAT et.al. are losing money hand-over-fist.
Who's going to stick up for Mao, Kim Il Sung and Pol Pot now?
ROFL - good riddance to scheer, he should be deported to a gulag......now if we could get rid of Dowd, Press and a few others it would be perfect....
And yet, for some strange reason, he still lives HERE! Why doesn't he live there? He has the means...
It boggles the mind...
This Hate America clymer can go to Cuba, Red China, N Korea or Iran and never miss a beat. He can continue to create his lies and spins about America. He can hate GW 24/7/365 with no fear of reprisal.
Or he can to work for Howard Dean and the DNC as their pr flac.
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Another liberal, jerk-weed, commie, moonbat gets a wake-up call!
Wow! Hadn't heard Scheer's getting the boot up his arse.
Ever since the Chicago Tribune group bought the LATimes, the news coverage there is really improving I hear.
Scheer was the worst kind of liberal bomb thrower journalism has to offer. Good riddance.
But the LAT had better not drop cartoonist Michael Ramirez!!
Ooh, the left gets their favorite thing in the whole world.... a martyr.
Now they get to play their beloved victim role, trotting this out over and over as "proof" of right-wing corporate media bias. One single, solitary left-wing nutjob gets the axe after all these years, but that'll set 'em off like Pavlov's dog.
I hereby create the "Robert Scheer drinking game": Do a shot every time you see or hear a reference to this as proof of a "chill wind blowing across the political landscape".
You'd probably get hammered in no time if you went to DU right now.
Progressive is lib code word for COMMUNISTS!..........
There you have it! DOWD, PRESS, etc. etc. etc. That's what they don't realize. Lib-commie-pinko columnistas are a dime a dozen. You can find 'em anywhere. They are nothin' special anymore. Why pay for sizzle when you can get steak cheaper? Any fool can (and does) write this drivel they spew by the single spaced column width. One down, hundreds to go! Hey this guy wasn't anything special. You could take any Lefties' column and put his byline on it and nothing would change and no one would notice!.............
Which begs the question "How many FReepers have their auto insurance with Progressive"?
Curious minds want to know...
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