The L.A. Times Letters to the Editor

There's letters to the editor and then there are letters to the editor.The L.A. Times has a letter from Barbra Streisand about the firing about Comrade Scheer:

The greater Southern California community is one that not only proudly embraces its diversity, but demands it. Your decision to fire Robert Scheer is a great disservice to the spirit of our community.


It seems that your new leadership, especially Publisher Jeff Johnson, is entirely out of touch with your readers and their desire to be exposed to views that stretch them beyond their own paradigms. So although the number of contributors to your Op-Ed pages may have increased, in firing Scheer and hiring columnists such as Jonah Goldberg, the gamut of voices has undeniably been diluted. I suspect this may ultimately decrease the number of readers of those same pages.

Are the "political views" of the UCLA faculty diverse? Who's demanding diversity for the taxpayers?