>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. >_______________________________________________________ Isn't it time for a boycott of the LA Times? Back in the day of the Crack the CIA Coalition, we had 4000 people march around the LA Times condemning their white- wash of the CIA and white-out of the truth behind the drug war and the contra war. --Michael
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