who reads the LA Times anymore?

Locally, their editorial opinions are fairly liberal.. this is really fucked


I cancelled my NYT subscription a year ago.. I need at least one national paper..

I would have expected more concern for Trump's creeping fascism and white nationalism from someone who grew up on the wrong side of apartheid.

CNN had record viewership. Print news had record subscriptions. They don’t want to say it out loud but also they are saying it out loud if you listen. They want Trump because he will bring in $.

He also killed a story about two years back where the dog of a friend of his bit someone. Wouldn't allow it to be printed
He's a jerk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Soon-Shiong

Patrick Soon-Shiong (Chinese: 黃馨祥; born July 29, 1952) is a South African and 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. Soon-Shiong is the founder of NantWorks, a network of healthcare, biotech, and artificial intelligence startups;[2] an adjunct professor of surgery and executive director of the Wireless Health Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles; and a visiting professor at Imperial College London and Dartmouth College.[3][4][5]

Soon-Shiong is the chairman of three nonprofit organizations: the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation, which aims to fund research and erase disparities in access to health care and education;[6] the Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Advanced Health, which is focused on changing the way health information is shared;[7] and the Healthcare Transformation Institute, a partnership with the University of Arizona and Arizona State University.[2] He has been a minority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers since 2010, and since June 2018, he has been the owner and executive chairman of the Los Angeles Times.[8]

Soon-Shiong's net worth is $6.2 billion as of 2024.[9] He has been called the richest man in Los Angeles and one of the wealthiest doctors in the world.[10]

... was when Otis Chandler was running it. Since then it has become nothing but a shit rag. I long ago stopped my subscription to it.

thevrest of the article, that sentence just pissed me off.

He's directed his paper to kill stories, and he ordered the editorial board not to make a decision on the race. Unsurprisingly, people have resigned in protest to his antics. Just another day in the 'era of the billionaire.'

P.S.- also, he's from South Africa so he probably consults with E-Loon Muskrat frequently. And Peter Thiele. Said someone very famous, "It's a club and you ain't in it."

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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, preserve their neutrality."

In a metro area of almost 13 million. Things sure have changed.

Oh, wait. This wasn't the NYT?

There are OTHER newspapers in the US?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/30/new-york-times-kamala-harris-endorsement-00181639

I read it on DU that they're "traitorous fascist scum"!

doesn't want to lose any more subscribers (purchasers) with a trump endorsement?

Grab em by the phussy.

Sheesh. why are they listening to the owner? Go ahead and run the endorsement anyway. Where's their self respect? So saving the country isn't a good enough reason for those cowards to risk losing their job? They can always get another job. Once the country is gone, it's gone. Pathetic.

"It's a free press if you own one."

Which just about sums it up.