This from a friend and emailer who attended today’s protest over the recent dismisal of liberal columnist Robert Scheer at the LA Times. Scheer’s apparent crime was being right on this administration and their trumped-up war from the get-go. That won’t do as the LA Times works hard to both destroy itself and appease the Bill O’Reilly McCarthyites of the New American Right. You’ll be delighted to know that while Scheer was removed, wingnut Jonah Goldberg has been added to the Opinion Page. Scheer’s own website will continue to carry his columns, along with other papers around the country.
Protesters layed white bread on the sidewalk, amid shouts of “No more bland, we want Bob.”
Meanwhile Scheer is launching an internet news service at the end of the month to be found at www.truthdig.com.
The LA Times can be reached at Letters@LATimes.com if you have any thoughts for them.
UPDATE: More details sent to me on how to contact the folks who need to be contacted:
Jeff.johnson@latimes.org (213-237-5000/fax: 213-237-4401) and CEO Tribune Company Dennis FitzSimons: dfitzsimons@tribune.com (312-222-9100/fax: 312-222-1573) to request Johnson’s or FitzSimons’ participation in a meeting with loyal Times’ readers.
Several additional photos from today’s protest follow…
If I’d known about it, I would have been there.
The Times They Are A Changin’
Time for another protest at the LA Times.
And in the meantime boycott the Times.
LA is a blue city and if the Times does not make a course correction, it is going to end up on the rocks.
The Times They Are A Changin’
L.A. Slimes
I hope they lost so much readership that they go under big time.
Thank you Robert Sheer for your excellent work. I’ll be reading you, but not the L.A. Times.
Is "wingnut" a really effective insult? Isn’t a wingnut an effective tool, allowing one to screw on bolts without a wrench, with wings to both the left and right? Maybe something a little more creative would be better.
Like moonbat?
Bobbie should now go go take a warm shower with his favourite X-acto and a fresh blade. He can watch the rich red flow and wistfully reminisce that he once gave big-time props to the two proto-Stalinist toads that have run North Korea into the shit-hole. Good riddance. High time that the Times finally opened their eyes.
Bobbie should now go go take a warm shower with his favourite X-acto and a fresh blade. He can watch the rich red flow and wistfully reminisce that he once gave big-time props to the two proto-Stalinist toads that have run North Korea into the shit-hole. Good riddance. High time that the Times finally opened their eyes.