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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 11/15/2005 4:44:08 PM
Title: Insulting explanation
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From STEPHEN D. BURGARD, director, Northeastern University School of Journalism: Readers got a wholly inadequate explanation today from Andres Martinez, editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, in response to widespread questions and concerns about the discontinuation of Robert Scheer's column. It was patronizing and insulting to their intelligence. Why can't you say, "It was time for a change...and that we originally had hoped to continue the column through the year but the columnist did not agree with our decision, so it has ended now." The paper to date has not offered a convincing explanation for ending two regular features - Michael Ramirez's cartoon and Scheer's column. In the absence of offering such an explanation, it would have been better to say nothing. [Permalink]

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