Columnist Stephanie Salter of the Chronicle may be getting fired

by vic

Mon, Aug 12, 2002 11:53PM

I avoid the Chron for the most part, but I got this email and thought I should spread the word. I don't really read her so I don't know about her stuff, but I'm guessing there won't be anyone better coming in there. Plus, no one deserves to just be fired because of the reasons they describe.

Please send an email if you can.

I am told that as of today we are about to lose another of the precious few voices for the liberal grassroots in our local "mass media."

Columnist Stephanie Salter of the Chronicle was told today that publisher John Oppedahl is discontinuing her column as of the end of August. He says her perspective does not "resonate" with him. He says "people outside of San Francisco are not interested" in the many organizing persons and projects she writes about. My occasion to meet her was an interview for a column with Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness.

PLEASE send e-mails of protest to publisher John
Oppedahl -joppedahl [at] sfchronicle.com.

Please copy to the same e-mail address -- "jdiaz," "letters," and "pbronstein."

A concerned committee of grass-roots folk is seeking a meeting with the hierarchy in the next 10 days.

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