Protest loss of liberal columnist

MEDIA ALLIANCE HOSTS a demonstration Wed/28 in front of the San Francisco Chronicle building to protest the paper's decision to cancel its only remotely liberal editorial-page column.

Columnist Stephanie Salter has lost her spot on the editorial page – leaving the opinion section of the daily paper in progressive San Francisco dominated by conservative voices. Salter told the Bay Guardian that nobody told her whether the decision was political – only that her column "did not fit the future look, sound, and feel" of the revamped op-ed page.

"We are very concerned this could be part of a larger, post 9/11 trend of silencing voices outside the mainstream," Media Alliance executive director Jeff Perlstein says. (Corbett Miller)

The rally begins Wed/28, noon, 901 Mission, S.F. For more info call (415) 546-6334, ext. 309.