Conservative commentator Scott Jennings joins LA Times editorial board amid paper shake up

Conservative commentator Scott Jennings announced helium had joined the Los Angeles Times' editorial committee connected Friday arsenic portion of the owner's caller directive to marque the insubstantial much balanced.

Jennings, who often sparks outrage from wide CNN viewers, praised L.A. Times proprietor Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong connected X for his "important and groundbreaking" mission.

"It’s existent - I’ve accepted @DrPatSoonShiong invitation to articulation the editorial committee of the @latimes," Jennings wrote connected X.

"I’ve written columns for the insubstantial implicit the past fewer years and was honored to bash truthful nether specified a storied and important masthead. I emotion newspapers and judge successful beardown journalism and beardown sentiment pages that correspond a wide array of views. I attack my commentary jobs by starting with the information and past providing my honorable sentiment based connected my blimpish values and experience. I deliberation Dr Soon-Shiong is doing thing important and groundbreaking and americium honored helium asked maine to play a relation successful that," helium continued.

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CNN elder governmental commentator Scott Jennings confirmed helium had joined the Los Angeles Times' Editorial Board. (CNN)

Jennings said the insubstantial overhaul was a measurement guardant successful addressing concerns galore Americans person astir biased reporting successful the media.

"Roughly fractional (or more) of the state often feels similar bequest media doesn’t attraction what it thinks and has small involvement successful reasonably representing its views and values. I program to correspond those Americans who judge they are often ignored oregon adjacent ridiculed successful bequest media and applaud Dr Soon-Shiong’s determination to bring equilibrium to the editorial board. My different nonrecreational obligations won’t beryllium impacted by this caller opportunity," Jennings' station concluded.

The paper's proprietor revealed earlier successful the week that helium had invited the CNN elder governmental commentator to articulation the editorial committee arsenic portion of this caller direction.

"That’s wherefore I privation Scott connected our caller editorial board!!! Growing the committee with experts who person thoughtful balanced views and caller candidates are accepting the situation to articulation us! Way to spell Scott and acknowledgment for accepting. Stay tuned we are making this happen," Soon-Shiong wrote Thursday on X.

Jennings was formerly an adjutant President George W. Bush earlier becoming a CNN contributor successful 2017 and L.A. Times contributing columnist successful 2019.

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Los Angeles Times proprietor Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong explains what absorption helium wants to instrumentality the paper. ((Patrick T. Fallon / AFP | Marco Tacca/Getty Images | Fox News Digital ))

After President-elect Donald Trump's triumph earlier this month, Soon-Shiong announced that helium wanted to overhaul the insubstantial and fto "all voices" beryllium heard with a caller editorial board.

Soon-Shiong told Fox News that helium wanted determination to beryllium a wide favoritism betwixt quality and sentiment successful the paper's reporting.

"If it's news, it should conscionable beryllium the facts, period," Soon-Shiong explained to "Fox News @ Night" big Trace Gallagher a fewer days later. "And if it's an opinion, that's possibly an sentiment of the news, and that's what I telephone present a voice. And so, we privation voices from each sides to beryllium heard, and we privation the quality to beryllium conscionable the facts."

The Los Angeles Times gathering and newsroom on Imperial Highway connected Friday, April 17, 2020 successful El Segundo, CA. ((Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))

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The L.A. Times proprietor came nether occurrence past period by readers and unit aft the editorial committee did not endorse a statesmanlike candidate for the archetypal clip since 2008.