[Timesink]

Most of you probably remember Stephanie Salter. I think it's nothing short of a miracle that a paper as liberal as the Chronicle actually dumped her.

[evolved_rage]

Cool. Every time the SF Comical calls I tell them they are a left-wing rag, and I don't want a free 4 week subscription because I don't own a bird.

[holyscroller]

Out local fish wrapper just dropped the only Conservative columnist in the rag, so I dropped them and told them why. Now they still keep delivering the paper free. The newspapers are desperate for readers so they can keep the advertising rates high. The only part of the papers worth reading these days is the ads. Thanks to FreeRepublic, I know the news days before it hits the local paper.

[rogue yam]

"Chronicle Editorial Page Editor John Diaz said ideology was not a factor, noting that there are still liberal views in the paper's opinion mix."

Stop it, J.D., you're killin' me here! Opinion "mix"? There is no major-city daily more monolithic in its anti-American idiocy than the S.F. Chron. Why, if I could FReep on BART they'd never get another quarter from me ever again.

r.y.

[bootless]

Of course, the NYT's spin on this incident is incredible. To hear them spin it, you'd think the Chron is going conservative. Not a chance. Debra Saunders is the only conservative columnist on the op-ed page, and she's got pull because she's nationally syndicated.

Women over 50? Please.

[skeeter]

But she feels bad for readers that no longer have a left-of-center, twice-weekly Op-Ed column like hers representing them in the paper.

Well those left of center, twice weekly op ed column readers will just have to make due with the Chronicle's left of center seven-times-weekly front page op-ed stuff.

[Numbers Guy]

It's too bad that Stephanie didn't get the kind of respect the Chronicle likely would have given "Nancy".

"Nancy" has more relevance than Salter.

[weegee]

"If the Chronicle had decided to yank a cartoon strip and it received the kind of reader reaction it did when other news sources reported on the plan to eliminate Salter, I feel pretty confident that the newspaper would capitulate."

The comics page has a lot more impact on newspaper subscriptions than the appearance of a specific editorial columnist. The appearance of some editorials will cause a subscriber to drop a newspaper subscription, this is not likely to be the case with a comic strip (unless it is one that editorializes like Doonsbury, Cathy, etc.).

[Plutarch]

Hmmm, Ann Coulter is around 40, so that wouldn't be age discrimination. Would be great to see the protests over that!