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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe owner of the Los Angeles Times has blocked the paper from endorsing a candidate for president this yea
The billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times has reportedly blocked its editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Members of the editorial board were all set to endorse Harris for the most powerful position in America, but earlier this month, executive editor Terry Tang told staff members the paper would not be endorsing a candidate for president, two people familiar with the conversations told Semafor.
She reportedly said the decision came straight from the paper's owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a doctor who made his fortune in the healthcare industry.
The decision marks a major departure for Harris' home state newspaper, which has exclusively endorsed Democratic presidential candidates since then-Senator Barack Obama ran in 2008.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/billionaire-owner-blocks-the-la-times-from-endorsing-kamala-harris/ar-AA1sJSHO
BComplex
(8,971 posts)The owner of the paper should see sales of his publication drop substantially.
BattleRow
(993 posts)LymphocyteLover
(6,463 posts)MineralMan
(147,271 posts)With all pages blank, except for this statement on each page, in large, bold type:
"This page is intentionally left blank."
forgotmylogin
(7,663 posts)Tetrachloride
(8,380 posts)RockRaven
(16,056 posts)distortions and manipulations you are potentially being exposed to every day. Is that the sort of "news" you want?
barbtries
(29,623 posts)the oligarch speaks.
rubbersole
(8,254 posts)onenote
(44,155 posts)Trying to make sense of your post.
rubbersole
(8,254 posts)Massive corporations controlling the "news"/message is a cancer on democracy. Billionaires buying elected representatives and media platforms is becoming the norm. It's on the ballot like never before. Government is the ONLY thing that can rein in this massive concentration of wealth. Repubs encourage it. Dems have a generational struggle ahead to reverse this trend. People vs unlimited money. No guarantees as who will prevail. Nov 5th is a good start.
DENVERPOPS
(9,814 posts)The best Media and Republican Politicians money can buy............
DENVERPOPS
(9,814 posts)The best Media and Republican Politicians money can buy............
onenote
(44,155 posts)rubbersole
(8,254 posts)Your options were greater when there was more competition. Journalistic integrity was paramount. Editors weren't just rubber stamps in independent newsrooms. Yeah, I know...and a quarter would buy you a cup of coffee...
soandso
(743 posts)It was the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that allowed the corporate monopolies of news stations and that was promoted and signed by Bill Clinton. As far as I'm concerned, no corporation or individual should own more than one news outlet. Even that wouldn't help the fact of individual newspapers being controlled by billionaires, though.
Volaris
(10,531 posts)it'll be national news when everyone gets fired.
Quiet Em
(611 posts)They need to defend their right and publish the endorsement.
A search of the owner shows he wants a role in a Trump administration, health care czar
marybourg
(13,061 posts)In this case the owner of the L. A. Times.
Quiet Em
(611 posts)That's awful.
Time for folks to cancel their subscriptions then.
And thank you for the clarification on this.
Johonny
(21,815 posts)I hope he remembers his neutrality . . .
Kid Berwyn
(17,595 posts)"Me approve too, Done-old."
usonian
(13,134 posts)Hope that magat moran brought his diving gear.
Nevilledog
(53,018 posts)S/V Loner
(9,083 posts)Musk, Thiel and now Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.
I guess they are still pissed about losing apartheid there and have plans to bring it back here in the States..
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,018 posts)Need to raise taxes so they don't have money to cause mischief with.
Joinfortmill
(16,144 posts)GreenWave
(8,804 posts)Their Apartheid acquaintances lost Big Time in South Africa from being the minority.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,583 posts)I've tried to override the default in settings, but to no avail. I looked this guy up a year ago and felt comforted by his bio. But knowing he has a similar path as Musk is upsetting. There is a 19 year age difference. And his work is extremely admirable...
"American businessman, investor, medical researcher, philanthropist, and transplant surgeon. He is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, which became known for its efficacy against lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer."
"He has committed to the Giving Pledge and has pledged to give away at least half of his wealth to philanthropy."
tenderfoot
(8,640 posts)I think he romanticizes the Third Reich rather than Apartheid. One and the same really.
S/V Loner
(9,083 posts)South Africa for a while.
tenderfoot
(8,640 posts)Makes sense... lol.
Cha
(304,121 posts)VP Harris & Gov Tim Walz in Spite of his Authoritarian Bullshit!
bdamomma
(65,687 posts)The voters will have something to say about that!!!!!! VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cha
(304,121 posts)For them.. This is a People Powered Election For VP Harris and Gov Tim Walz & Democracy!
likesmountains 52
(4,167 posts)4catsmom
(152 posts)when the paper is censored? This is a disgrace. Much like Elon and X.
senseandsensibility
(20,141 posts)It is not journalism. I have degrees in both Journalism and K-12 education. What is happening in journalism today is the equivalent of a school principal telling teachers that they can't explain concepts to their students. For informational purposes, there are "scripts" in teachers' textbooks that tell them what to say to students when they teach. But NO good teacher limits themselves to that. When students don't understand, teachers access the problem and adjust accordingly. So while a principal could cover themselves by saying that if you read the script and nothing else you are technically "teaching", it would be real instruction in name only. And that's what's going on in too much of journalism today.
orangecrush
(21,155 posts)When integrity is more important than a job.
This is one of them.
Time for them to speak out.
Bev54
(11,785 posts)Time to put these oligarch's out of business.
et tu
(1,835 posts)we have to win, we just have to-
people like Musk, Thiel, and the Owner of LA Times hopefully will choke on that greed.
33taw
(2,700 posts)Stop reading and watching MSM.
Stardust Mirror
(587 posts)owners will fire anyone in their company/paper/channel who goes against their politics
and all the people working for said owner know it
that is how the press becomes biased
it's ok to have biased press if reporters/outlets are free to express their own biases and it's ok for owners to direct those biases but it's not ok when there are only 15 individual people who own/control 90% of all media in the country. There should be as many independent owners of media as there are varied points of view. Ownership should be limited to the billionaire class.
PortTack
(34,285 posts)verargert
(58 posts)onenote
(44,155 posts)Wednesdays
(19,943 posts)And Charles Manson.
Your point?
onenote
(44,155 posts)Point is that facts matter.
marybourg
(13,061 posts)according to the Constitution.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,411 posts)After stopping the Post. Years ago I dropped NY Times over Judith Miller.
But not now. Wonder what the Editorial Board will do...
Joinfortmill
(16,144 posts)twodogsbarking
(12,092 posts)And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
'Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want
John Mayer
ancianita
(38,056 posts)from the New Yorker 2 years ago... a fascinating profile of a highly accomplished human. No wonder he and Elon are friends.
In 2013, Soon-Shiong became an early investor in Zoom, the video conferencing company.[42]
In September 2014, NantWorks LLC, a company headed by Soon-Shiong, invested $2.5 million in AccuRadio.[43]...the NantWorks galaxy, there is NantHealth, which builds diagnostic medical software; NantCloud, which offers cloud-computing services; ImmunityBio, which develops immunotherapy treatments for cancer; and NantStudios, a movie soundstage and visual-effects studio. There are also NantMobile, NantBioScience, NantEnergy, NantOmics, and NantGames...
Given his surgeon background and his drug research & development, his purchases of big pharmaceuticals, investments in South Africa, and his biggest project umbrella of all, Nantworks, why did he want to own the LA Times at all? Here's one clue, imo.
Magoo48
(5,083 posts)Joe Nation
(998 posts)I mean as popular as the print media is these days, not sure anyone will notice any kind of endorsement.
KS Toronado
(19,254 posts)and then broadcast the RW shenanigans far and wide.
dchill
(40,083 posts)... to be revived in USA? Stay tuned.
jayschool2013
(2,448 posts)404 Media and the hopes of worker-owned journalism
April 18, 2024
By Justin R. Silverman
What is it like to place a bet in a Las Vegas casino thats been hacked and is refusing to pay the ransom? Last September, technology journalist Jason Koebler answered that question in the style of Hunter S. Thompson: he went to Vegas and started gambling.
Koebler wrote about the bizarre conditions at the Aria, the Bellagio, and other MGM-owned casinos, which had been the victim of a ransomware attack a week earlierwith employees paying out slot machines by hand and eight restaurants forced to share a single credit card processing machine. His story was picked up by national news outlets.
It wasnt so different from the kind of reporting Koebler had done for years at his previous employer, Vices Motherboard. But this time, he was doing it for 404 Media, a new publication that he, along with his three coeditors, dont just work for, they own.
SNIP
Koebler quit his job as editor in chief at Motherboard last summer, a few months after Vice declared bankruptcy. (I worked at Vice from 2020 to 2023, and sometimes produced videos for Motherboard.) He and three other Motherboard writers and editors, Samantha Cole, Joseph Cox, and Emanuel Maiberg, launched 404 Media in August. They named it after the error code generated when an internet browser cant find a webpage.
orleans
(34,750 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,774 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143327197
Mariel Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review in an interview that she resigned because the Times was remaining silent on the contest in dangerous times.
I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent, Garza said. In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how Im standing up.
In a post on the social media platform X that did not directly mention the resignation, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong said the board was asked to do a factual analysis of the policies of Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump during their time at the White House.
Good for her. Good editors are hard to find. Unfortunately, wealthy naturalized nazis are way too common all of a sudden.