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.
And this is why the LAT will not reform and abandon their
leftist bias/agenda/spin. It would cost them more lib
subscribers than they are likely to gain.
"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. "
No doubt a who's who of the great unwashed among us.
In a related story, her ten-year-old paperboy said he will miss her fifty cents per month tip.
In all fairness, this is DEVESTATING publicity for the LA Times... Now, everyone will know where BS got her news from.
They fired a white guy for an Hispanic guy, and BS is complaining that the newspaper's diversity has been REDUCED?
STOP THE PRESSES!
BARBARA STREISAND HAS A CONSERVATIVE VIEWPOINT ON AN ISSUE!
BARBARA STREISAND MEASURES DIVERSITY BASED ON ACTUAL THOUGHT, NOT COLOR OF SKIN!
Unless, Scheer was a poofter... poofters get more diversity credits than Hispanics.
Hey, wait... No-one said start the presses back up!
KEEP THE PRESSES STOPPED FOR GOOD!
Somehow I knew this would be a MechaStreisand ping. LOL
well there goes 35 cents per day.
I'm sure the CEOs are sweating. And she'll quit singing for them; that's even worse.
Barbra who?.. Some Hollywood actors wife, I suppose..
Does BS spend more $$ for her subscription than the average reader? If not, she needs to STHU, her opinion doesn't matter.
I believe he has in the past.
Did her parrot die?
I hope she punches her own ticket soon.
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