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Please distribute to your lists ... I've been a punching bag for Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh for years and I think the paper finally collapsed -- Robert Scheer, Friday, Nov. 11th WHAT: Join Peace and Media Activists from Across Los Angeles As We Put the New Publisher on Notice Picket LA Times/Protest the Firing of Columnist Robert Scheer & Limited Coverage of Local Anti-War Movement WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Noon WHERE: Outside, LA Times Building First Street Entrance 202 W. 1st St. (at Spring St.) Los Angeles, CA 90012 WHY: Last Friday, LA Times Publisher Jeff Johnson fired Robert Scheer who had worked there for 30 years, the last 12 years as a weekly columnist. Robert Scheer's Anti-War Voice is Critical. Los Angeles Times readers will not Tolerate the Paper's Op-ed Pages Tilting Further to the Right with the firing of Scheer and the Hiring of Far-right Columnists Max Boot and Jonah Goldberg with No One Holding Scheer's Spot As the Voice of Peace A delegation will also demand a meeting with publisher Jeff Johnson, who reportedly has privately told people that he hated every word that Scheer wrote. We want to read full-spectrum of voices in the LA Times and know that our daily newspaper will fully cover the anti-war movement in Los Angeles. BRING SIGNS: Suggested slogans. LA Times Publisher: Did you hate every word Scheer wrote exposing lies that led us into the War in Iraq? LA Times Publisher: Did you hate every word Scheer wrote exposing the lies about Wen Ho Lee? LA Times Publisher: Do you hate every word Scheer wrote exposing the lies of the NY Times' Judith Miller? These "Times" Call for Scheer What's happening at the LA Times? Who's voice will be silenced next? Why no LA Times story on owning Street Teach-in? Why no LA Times story on the Gold Star Families and Arlington West Veterans Day March? Why no LA Times story on Anti-war Protest Against Pro-war Hillary? More info or things you can do to protest: Listen/Watch Robert Scheer On Democracy Now! on Monday Nov. 14. KPFK 90.7 FM at 6AM and 9AM DirecTV: Link TV, Channel 375, DISH Network: Link TV channel 9410 And Free Speech TV, channel 9415 Visit LAObserved.com for latest developments. Check-out: Right-wing bloggers are thrilled at Scheer's firing: Local Liberty http://www.claremont.org/localliberty/archives/004114.html PrestoPundit http://gregransom.com/prestopundit/?p=662 Patterico http://patterico.com/2005/11/09/3928/robert-scheer-out/ Fax a letter or e-mail letter of protest against the firing and consider joining a campaign with hundreds of readers canceling their subscription to the LA Times: Publisher Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX 213.237.4401 CEO of Tribune Publications Dennis Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] President of Tribune Publications Scott Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editorial Page Editor Andres Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 213.237.7968 Robert Scheer's Nov. 11 statement: "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." LA Times article on the changes to op-ed pages: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lat11nov11,0,808176.story?coll=l a-tot-promo&track=morenews MORE ABOUT Robert Scheer: A 30-year veteran of political reporting, he was the Vietnam correspondent for Ramparts in the 60s and national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times from 1976 to 1993. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, where he teaches a course on media and society and has authored six books, most recently "The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq." www.robertscheer.com. 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