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LA Times Columnist Robert Scheer Fired: Publisher Hated Every Word About Bush Lies
So much for the media's protestations of regret for backing the Neocons.
Scheer responds
In an email to friends and supporters, soon-to-be-ex Times columnist Robert Scheer blames Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson for his ouster from the op-ed page:
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.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2005/11/scheer_responds.html
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“Liberal Fascism” Author Jonah Goldberg Now L.A. Times Op-Ed Columnist
The Los Angeles Times announced a major shake-up of its op-ed page today. Gone are cartoonist Michael Ramirez and liberal columnist Robert Scheer.
In their place, you won’t find any committed progressives like Scheer. Instead, L.A. Times editors chose National Review contributing editor and “Liberal Fascism” author Jonah Goldberg. Below, some of our favorite Jonah jems, coming to a “liberal media” near you:
On McCarthy’s wisdom:
What makes McCarthyism so hard to discuss is that McCarthy behaved like a jerk, but he was also right.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/11/latimes-jonah/
In an email to friends and supporters, soon-to-be-ex Times columnist Robert Scheer blames Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson for his ouster from the op-ed page:
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.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2005/11/scheer_responds.html
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“Liberal Fascism” Author Jonah Goldberg Now L.A. Times Op-Ed Columnist
The Los Angeles Times announced a major shake-up of its op-ed page today. Gone are cartoonist Michael Ramirez and liberal columnist Robert Scheer.
In their place, you won’t find any committed progressives like Scheer. Instead, L.A. Times editors chose National Review contributing editor and “Liberal Fascism” author Jonah Goldberg. Below, some of our favorite Jonah jems, coming to a “liberal media” near you:
On McCarthy’s wisdom:
What makes McCarthyism so hard to discuss is that McCarthy behaved like a jerk, but he was also right.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/11/latimes-jonah/
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what I mean to say, is that "they" can hide all they want from American public (the reason for Indymedia?), but on the ground in Iraq and elsewhere...well, it doesn't really matter, does it?
I just feel sorry for all those American boys and girls (present and future) and all those Iraqi citizens, who are going to be killed and maimed because of (this ?) government's inept foreign policy.
a so-called mainstream "liberal" like sheer won't be lost as far as i am concerned. in the slime controlled corporate media, the difference between hawk and dove is *very* slim. difference is purely technical.
but, he has been relentlessly attacking the neo-conservatives, before it was even fashionable for Democrats to do so
it is the final nail in the coffin of the LA Times editorial pages, back in the 1990s, after the Rodney King riots, the paper made a conscious effort to bring community voices to the paper, but now, they have disappeared, one by one
now we get pro-imperialist British historian Niall Ferguson, torture apologist Max Boot and some fairly recent right wing apologist, David Gelernter, with the dismissal of Scheer, and few columnists of color in one of the racially and culturally diverse communities in the world
it reached an absurd level recently, when Gelernter was pontificating the neo-conservative line of North Korea, in a newspaper in a city with one of the largest Korean communities in the world outside of Korea
apparently, the LA Times already understood that it wasn't going to like what Koreans in LA thought about North Korea, preferring to engage in a the condescending approach of having the issue filtered through a white male conservative columnist
sometimes, the LA Times has some good news articles, but NEVER PAY FOR THEM
--Richard Estes