[forwarded via Ed Pearl's email list: "Peretz changes Israeli agenda, Bob Scheer writes on "]
November 11, 2005 Dear Subscribers to www.RobertScheer.com, Some of you may have read in the Los Angeles Times this morning that Robert Scheer's home paper for nearly 30 years has axed his very popular weekly column from that paper's op-ed pages without providing a single reason. However, the column will continue to be written and published here and elsewhere every week. It will keep showing up in your mailbox! Here is Robert Scheer's own statement this morning on the situation: "On Friday, I was fired as a columnist by the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, where I have worked for thirty years. The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fortunately sixty percent of Americans now get the point but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher." The good news is that, thanks to the San Franciso Chronicle, The Nation and numerous web sites including HuffingtonPost.com, AlterNet.org, robertscheer.com and the forthcoming TruthDig.com, Scheer's weekly column on national and international issues will still be widely available, and will also be syndicated to other media outlets by Creators Syndicate. The column will run in the Times for a few more weeks on Tuesdays, after which it will become a Wednesday column. Here is the Times own article on the changes: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lat11nov11,0,808176.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews Perhaps most disturbing is that the cancellation of Scheer's column in the Times after more than 12 years was clearly a political decision taken by paper's new publishers, who recently took control of the paper's opinion page from its editors. While the Times took the opportunity to push out controversial conservative cartoonist Michael Ramirez (and will not replace him with another cartoonist), the new cast of columnists they are bringing in is strongly tilted to the far right, led by Max Boot and Jonah Goldberg. None of the other new or retain columnists on the page can be said to hold down Scheer's spot as a passionate and contrarian progressive voice. As always, we are grateful to you independent thinkers who have subscribed to receive the column in your inbox. And thank goodness for the Internet! Sincerely, Christopher Scheer [webmaster and son] p.s. If you know folks who read Scheer in the LA Times, please forward them this note so they can find out how to continue to find and read the column after December. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
