Stop the Presses!!! Streisand cancels her newspaper subscription!

[AliceInWonderland]

Streisand Cancels LA Times Subscription Thu Dec 8, 3:43 PM ET

Barbra Streisand has canceled her subscription to the Los Angeles Times over the firing of the paper's liberal columnist.

The newspaper dropped Robert Scheer and several other columnists last month; Scheer speculated he was let go because the Times had tired of his politics.

Perhaps the most liberal voice on the paper's opinion pages, Scheer had been a Times columnist for 12 years. He was a reporter for the newspaper for 17 years before that.

"Robert Scheer's column, with its often singular voice of dissent and groundbreaking expositional content, has been among the most notable features that have sustained my interest in subscribing to the LA Times for many years now," Streisand wrote in a letter she sent to the newspaper and posted on her Web site.

Streisand, a well-known supporter of Democratic candidates and liberal causes, wrote that by firing Scheer the Times had reduced the diversity of voices on its opinion pages. A shortened version of her letter was printed in the Times Nov. 23. The full letter is posted on her Web site.

In a note to its readers, the Times reported Nov. 15 that hundreds of readers had written or called to complain about Scheer's departure.

David Garcia, a Times spokesman, had no comment Thursday on Streisand's letter.

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IS this newsworthy?
well I tend to side w/ her politics so watevers
I still can't stand the ego on this bitch though

[Classic Broad]

Barbra can do no wrong in my eyes!!!

[MrsDark]

Barbra can do no wrong in my eyes!!!

Well...I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that! But in this instance...WTG Babs!

[darksithbunny]

I could care less about what the hell she does.

[Elisa]

I can't believe she seems to think she wields so much power. I truly wouldn't bother to cross the street to meet her if I had the opportunity. I can't stand people who are so pretentious.

[slurikaine]

So?

[publicdefender]

I love Barbra Streisand. I was just wathcing "The WAy We Were"; funny it sounds like she wants to be k-k-k-kKAtie!