LA Times owner slapped with community note after author of RFK Jr op-ed claims article edited out criticism

The proprietor of the Los Angeles Times got slapped with a assemblage enactment aft the writer down a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sentiment portion accused the insubstantial of editing retired his critique of the Department of Health and Human Services nominee.

Patrick Soon-Shiong, the proprietor and executive president of the LA Times, tweeted a nexus to a caller sentiment portion successful the insubstantial titled "Trump’s healthcare disruption could wage off—if helium pushes existent reform."

"He is our champion accidental of doing so," Soon-Shiong added.

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Los Angeles Times proprietor Patrick Soon-Shiong. ((Patrick T. Fallon / AFP | Marco Tacca/Getty Images | Fox News Digital ))

But his station was rapidly stamped with a harsh assemblage note: "The writer of this nonfiction says that the LA Times edited retired his wide absorption to RFK Jr. without his consent and gave it a header which straight contradicts the constituent helium was trying to make."

Eric Reinhart, a societal psychiatrist and the writer of the sentiment portion successful question, tweeted connected Friday that his nonfiction was "given a misleading title" and had "key lines" chopped that made wide RFK Jr. is "dangerously ignorant" and is "effectively a wide murderer successful waiting."

"My archetypal clip moving with the Los Angeles Times, and I expect besides my last," helium added.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Trump's nominee to service arsenic Secretary of Health and Human Services testifies during a Senate Committee connected Health, Education, Labor and Pensions proceeding for his pending confirmation connected Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Reinhart revealed that his suggested rubric for the sentiment portion was "RFK Jr’s Wrecking Ball Won’t Fix Public Health" and that the opening and closing lines to the portion bash not permission his stance connected the HHS nominee "ambiguous."

"Editors edit and power last transcript and hed; I get that. But editing retired a precise cardinal and timely constituent successful the minutes earlier sending to property portion past besides assigning a rubric and representation that suggest an statement wholly other to the author’s wide intent is bad," helium continued.

Reinhart aboriginal had the archetypal mentation of his portion published by The New Republic with a caller title: "The RFK Jr. Op-Ed The Los Angeles Times Didn’t Want You to Read."

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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))

The op-ed writer aboriginal called the LA Times incidental a "scandal" and suggested it is "symptomatic of the oligarchic takeover of U.S. media and politics." 

In a connection fixed to NPR by an LA Times spokesperson, the insubstantial said its sentiment editors enactment with op-ed contributors to edit pieces for length, clarity and accuracy, among different things. 

"No op-ed pieces are published, arsenic edited, without the support of the author. That includes the op-ed written by Eric Reinhart," the spokesperson said. 

Soon-Shiong publically praised RFK Jr. past Tuesday, saying helium hoped helium was confirmed. Soon-Shiong antecedently told Fox News Digital that Kennedy's questions astir what Americans devour are morganatic issues to raise.

The LA Times did not instantly instrumentality Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.