Staffers at the Los Angeles Times are accusing billionaire owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong of interfering with editorial decisions, particularly regarding coverage of President-elect Donald Trump. Reports suggest Soon-Shiong has implemented a policy requiring opposing viewpoints to be presented alongside editorials critical of Trump, effectively limiting negative commentary. The situation stems from reports of Soon-Shiong blocking an editorial critical of Trump's cabinet appointments and his increasing involvement in shaping the newspaper's editorial content.
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times say that the newspaper’s billionaire owner is demanding that the editorial board “take a break from writing about” President-elect Donald Trump , according to a report.
The editorial, which bore the headline “Donald Trump’s cabinet choices are not normal. The Senate’s confirmation process should be,” did not run,But the extent of Soon-Shiong’s hands-on involvement in the editorial decisions of his newspaper has been “much broader in scope” than spiking the op-ed, according to Status.
Terry Tang, the executive editor of the LA Times, received a memo signed by “several members” of the opinion section who accuse their boss of having “instituted a new policy that prohibits editorials containing criticism of the president-elect unless they are presented side-by-side with another opinion piece representing the ‘opposing view’,” Darcy wrote in his newsletter.
Soon-Shiong has also reportedly “required” the editorial board to email him “the text of every editorial and the name of its writer” ahead of publication — a move that staffers said raised “concerns about the ability of the board to do its job without fear of retaliation.”“Editorial board positions and content have been preemptively censored before publication, and its arguments, headlines and topics subjected to boundaries that did not previously exist,” the memo said.
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