Posted on 12/08/2005 3:38:50 PM PST by 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.
Does Babs have a nose for news?
I don't know what's worse... Babs cancelling her subscription, or that someone thinks it's news. God Almighty.
HAY! As a guitar player myself, I wouldn't want that snotty nose encasing one of my prized instruments! You take that back, TAKE IT BACK, I SAY !!! /chuckle
Sounds like the LA Times is headed in the right direction.
Barbra Streisand is still alive?
Sorry. I meant no insults to guitar cases.
My friend markets LA Times in Orange Co. - he uses the firing of Scheer as a "benefit" now when pitching the rag...
Why did she have one to begin with? She doesn't even read.
Babs can now hire the guy to write on her Web site so she read his stuff - she sure has the money.
Of course not. Her nose gets in the way of her eyes.
Who actually cares whether Streisand cancelled her paper and why? Who CARES? Wow, how far did this set the L.A. Times back? What, $15 month, and that's stretching it. Blah Blah Blah.
don't know. Don't care. But it is fun to make fun of them for it.
Babs, why don't YOU hire Sheer to read AND write for you. Lord knows you could afford to hire all 15 employees just laid off.
Who cares? Not me!
Let's see if she'll put her money where her mouth is...it would be hard to miss anyway.
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