LA Times Readers/Subscribers to Picket Outside Times Building

[Sequoia]

To Protest Controversial Firing of Popular Columnist Robert Scheer

"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

LOS ANGELES - November 14 -

WHAT:
Readers to Picket LA Times to Protest Firing of Columnist Robert Scheer and Limited Coverage of Local Anti-War Movement

WHO:
LA Times Readers and Grassroots Peace Activists from Across Los Angeles

WHEN:
Tuesday, Nov. 15, Noon

WHERE:
Outside LA Times Building First Street Entrance 202 W. 1st St. (at Spring St.) Los Angeles, CA 90012

After a week of Internet rumors, it was officially announced on Friday, Nov. 11 that LA Times publisher Jeff Johnson fired Robert Scheer, who had worked at Times for 30 years, the last 12 as a weekly columnist on the op-ed page. Scheer had a substantial following, and very often his columns would be on top of the paper's list of most e-mailed stories.

An announcement of the protest to grassroots activists reads in part:

''Robert Scheer's anti-war voice is critical. Los Angeles Times readers will not tolerate the Paper's op-ed page tilting further to the right with the firing of Scheer and the inclusion of far-right columnists Max Boot and Jonah Goldberg with no one holding Scheer's spot as a passionate and contrarian national progressive voice.''

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http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1114-04.htm

[David Zephyr]

1. I would have gone had I known.

I am really bothered by all of this.

[99Pancakes]

2. I hope someone posts photos

Or a report on how it went.

[Cha]

3. Here's another article I

found on buzzflash on the Protest today for Robert Scheer..

snipett~

"We think he was fired totally for political reasons," Karen Pomer, a media activist who helped organize the demonstration, told E&P Monday. "Now they don't have anyone who covers national issues in the same way. The Times needs a full spectrum of voices. It's becoming insipid."


To make the point about blandness, demonstrators plan to distribute slices of Wonder bread at the Tuesday picket."

Is it too late to buy some wonder bread and get down there?


http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001479205