Alongside its endorsement of Kamala Harris, the Los Angeles Times editorial board had also planned a multi-part series against Donald Trump before the whole thing was quashed by owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, TheWrap has learned.
According to internal memos viewed by TheWrap, the series, tentatively called “The Case Against Trump,” would have ran throughout this week. The endorsement of Kamala Harris would then have been published on Sunday.
However, Soon-Shiong ordered the cancellation 0f the series and the endorsement without explanation, current and now former staffers have confirmed, setting off a massive crisis for the 142-year-old paper.
And Klein, who also called Soon-Shiong a “chickens—,” stated plainly in a note explaining her resignation that “the board was not the one choosing to remain silent. He blocked our voice.”
I really want to read the planned editorial now.
So, the L.A. Times, Washington Post and New York Times are now in conservative hands. Just like the takeover of the judiciary that the Heritage Foundation coordinated. If we can ever take back our government, we need to re-institute the Fairness Doctrine, ban foreign ownership of our media and strip citizenship from this guy, Elon Musk, and any naturalized citizen that works against the best interests of America.
Now… now!? They’ve been doing that for centuries.
And that’s on top of Fox, CNN, Sinclair (40%? of local news), etc.
NPR
NPR is one of the few decent journalistic outlets left. What are you talking about?
New York Times are now in conservative hands
The NYT is?
Always have been.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html
I don’t love the Times editorial/opinion boards but they’re hardly the same as WaPo and the L.A. Times. They also happen to be one of the only places to get decent coverage of global conflicts, along with Bellingcat and War Nerd. They should absolutely make significant changes in their, frankly, shit tier Gaza coverage. They’re also reporting on increasing attacks against the LGBTQ+ community in the Ivory Coast.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/world/africa/ivory-coast-lgbtq.html
And secret prisons in Bangladesh, where prisoners are tortured and disappeared.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/world/asia/bangladesh-disappeared.html
And (like everyone else) that Israel killed Lebanese journalists. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/world/middleeast/israel-strike-lebanon-journalists.html
They also featured firsthand accounts by doctors and a teacher of the horrors of IDF intentionally targeting children.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/opinion/gaza-teacher-students-school.html
So yes, NYT has awful coverage of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Institutions are complicated and agenda-driven. They also have better coverage of conflicts in the rest of the world than most news outlets.
They also, unlike the Post and L.A. Times, actually picked a side, which is what’s specifically relevant to this post.
I don’t know what the Fairness Doctrine would do in modern times. Its legal basis was in broadcast TV and radio, not the news media in general. It never applied to newspapers or cable news, and it wouldn’t apply to the Internet. I don’t know why it still gets brought up except as a point of history.
It’s not about conservative hands or foreign hands. It’s about wealthy hands. They don’t want to shoot their wealth in the foot by pissing off powerful people who could turn around and hurt their money. Burn their fucking money and distribute their goods and meat among the people to barter with in a new society built from the ashes of their goddamn empire.
You’d think that would be the problem, but the New York Times was run by a Jewish man during the Holocaust who buried the story to curry favor with the powers that be. He felt that at his level of capital, he’d be unlikely to suffer the way that German Jews were, even when Naziism became popular here, and therefore decided that covering up genocide was the safer bet for him politically and financially.
When it comes to this kind of shit, political affiliation is merely a symptom of the disease: being a fucking asshole. It turns out that the most important thing to the American media is money and power. Fuck the people.
Imagine a world where everyone have the class solidarity that the bourgeois have.
I know one thing: if we could coordinate ourselves even a little, I’d finally know what “billionaire” tastes like
I think the really rich people want trump to win. Unfortunately because of that he probably will. I really hope not, but the oligarchy gets its way.
For the next two weeks, it’s propaganda, as it’s been for the last three decades, because they do need consent this time. But if Trump wins this one, then those in power won’t need that anymore.
But even when it’s propaganda, it’s strange just watching the effect of rich people’s influence pulling a hundred-million Americans’ opinions toward Trump. It’s like being able to see visible gravity, it seems so obvious when you can see it, but then you realize that those hundred-million people can’t see it or even understand it as it’s pulling them off the edge of a cliff.
Release it anyway. Do it in some medium other than the newspaper if you have to.
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They should all start a new independent company called the Los Angeles Multiplier.
LAX for short?
No because they’re on the LAM from LA Times
Hey journalists, I’ve got an idea… form a new newspaper and tell your owner to go fuck themselves.
