Barbara Streisand Cancels LA Times Subscription (Stupid Moron Alert)

Yahoo! News ^ | 12-8-05

[pcottraux]

Streisand Cancels LA Times Subscription 2 hours, 52 minutes ago LOS ANGELES -

Barbra Streisand has canceled her subscription to the Los Angeles Times over the firing of the paper's liberal columnist.

The newspaper dropped Robert Scheer and several other columnists last month; Scheer speculated he was let go because the Times had tired of his politics. Perhaps the most liberal voice on the paper's opinion pages, Scheer had been a Times columnist for 12 years. He was a reporter for the newspaper for 17 years before that.

"Robert Scheer's column, with its often singular voice of dissent and groundbreaking expositional content, has been among the most notable features that have sustained my interest in subscribing to the LA Times for many years now," Streisand wrote in a letter she sent to the newspaper and posted on her Web site.

Streisand, a well-known supporter of Democratic candidates and liberal causes, wrote that by firing Scheer the Times had reduced the diversity of voices on its opinion pages. A shortened version of her letter was printed in the Times Nov. 23. The full letter is posted on her Web site.

In a note to its readers, the Times reported Nov. 15 that hundreds of readers had written or called to complain about Scheer's departure.

David Garcia, a Times spokesman, had no comment Thursday on Streisand's letter.

[pipecorp]

"I'm almost embarrassed for you in seeing the LA Times being referred to as the "Chicago LA Times" on the myriad of internet sites I've visited in the last few days. It seems, however, an aptly designated epithet, representing the feeling among many of your readers that your new leadership, especially that of Jeff Johnson, is entirely out of touch with them and their desire to be exposed to views that stretch them beyond their own paradigms. So although the number of contributors to your op-ed pages may have increased, in firing Robert Sheer and putting Jonah Goldberg in his place, the gamut of voices has undeniably been diluted, and I suspect this may ultimately decrease the number of readers of those same pages.

In light of the obvious step away from the principals of journalistic integrity, which would dictate that journalists be journalists, editors be editors and accountants be accountants, I am now forced to carefully reconsider which sources can be trusted to provide me with accurate, unbiased news and forthright opinions."

Okay babs. if i'm not mistaken you cannot have a "myriad of internet sites" myriad means tens of thousands of, a large number of. therefore one might say the "myriad internet sites"

Second. its principles not principals.

And you think GW is stupid?

[ChadGore]

Mecha-Streisand !

Someone call the Cure!

[ChadGore]

[EveningStar]

[GoforBroke]

Well if she causes the portion of readers that agree with her, to cancel their subscriptions! The only subscribers the LA Times would have left are the institutions i.e. libraries, Dr.'s offices, Dentist offices, and the county jail.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

[alrea]

Barb-

Join us conservatives who years ago started ditching a deceptive rag of socialist redistribtutionist fish wrap.

Al

[dynachrome]

Run. It's Mecha-Babszilla!

[Mr_Moonlight]

Thank You, apology accepted :)
Actually it didn't bother me as much as it did my Martin, which began fretting at first and then got all keyed up over this, and started looking for a bridge to jump off of .. it was always a nut, that Martin, and very high strung too.
But now it is back in tune with the world and with FR ;)

[Max7]

Touche !

[pcottraux]

and very high strung too.

LOL

[spinestein]

BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


We want Carrot Top!

[Farmer Dean]

In my world she has been dead over 15 years.People like her,I refuse to acknowledge their existence.

[kellynla]

the Left Angeles Times has lost the conservative subscribers and now the Lefties too?
who the hell is subscribing to the paper?

might be an excellent time for Ruppert to buy the paper!
hey, Ruppert, are you listening???
but keep the camel jockeys out of this deal will ya! LOL

[1rudeboy]

I don't know what's worse... Babs cancelling her subscription, or that someone thinks it's news. God Almighty.

What's funny is that, given the Law of Unintended (Liberal) Consequences, the mere act of printing this story will cause other Libs to cancel their subscriptions, driving the LAT deeper into the tank.

[Stultis]

Bad news: The LA Slimes subscription list has been reduced by one.
Good news: The average IQ of its readership has jumped by several points.

[pcottraux]

Might be an excellent time for Ruppert to buy the paper!

Now that's a good idea if I've ever heard one. Think of the sound the strangling continuing death of the MSM will make.

[freedumb2003]

The cost of Scheer was Ramirez.

Dang! But Scheer's hate-filled vitrol had to go.

I am sure I can find Ramirez online (right now his work is hosted by LAT).

[ridesthemiles]

I don't know what's worse... Babs cancelling her subscription, or that someone thinks it's news. God Almighty.""

While I am no fan of the Times, too bad they cannot "CANCEL" Babs.

[Mr_Moonlight]

BOOOOOOOOOOO!!! We want Carrot Top!

Geeeezzz ... rough crowd tonight !