Los Angeles Times owner vows to shake things up, make the historic paper a place where 'all voices' are heard

The billionaire proprietor of The Los Angeles Times said his insubstantial has conflated quality and sentiment and vowed to instrumentality it successful different absorption wherever each voices are heard and represented. 

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the LA Times successful 2018, told "Fox News @ Night" Thursday helium wants his insubstantial to differentiate betwixt quality and opinion, and explicitly study connected "facts."

"If it's news, it should conscionable beryllium the facts, period. And if it's an opinion, that's possibly an opinion 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," helium explained. 

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 ))

Soon-Shiong came nether occurrence aft helium quashed the editorial board’s planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris successful the last days starring up to the 2024 election.

Three members of the LA Times’ editorial committee resigned successful protestation implicit the paper’s non-endorsement. The insubstantial had antecedently endorsed Democratic candidates successful each statesmanlike contention since 2008. 

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Soon-Shiong wrote successful a station connected X, formerly Twitter, implicit the play that helium wants a insubstantial that’s "fair and balanced truthful that each voices are heard and we tin respectfully speech each American’s view...from near to close to the center." "Coming soon. A caller Editorial Board. Trust successful media is captious for a beardown democracy," helium said.

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 doc reiterated his views to Fox News anchor Trace Gallgher, erstwhile again arguing for the request to person "views connected some sides."

"It is our work to maintain democracy, to person the views of each our California readers, successful fact, the views of each the nationalist readers to beryllium aired. Because if we conscionable person the 1 side, it becomes thing other but an echo chamber," helium said.

"And so, it's going to beryllium risky and difficult. I'm going to instrumentality a batch of heat, which I already am, but you know, I travel from the presumption that truly it's important for each voices to beryllium heard."

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US Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris (R) shakes hands with erstwhile US President and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump during a statesmanlike statement astatine the National Constitution Center successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, connected September 10, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

The Washington Post besides decided not to endorse a campaigner successful the 2024 statesmanlike contention and vowed not to successful immoderate aboriginal predetermination either.

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Publisher William Lewis said the job of the Post is "to supply done the newsroom nonpartisan quality for each Americans, and thought-provoking, reported views from our sentiment squad to assistance our readers marque up their ain minds. Most of all, our occupation arsenic the paper of the superior metropolis of the astir important state successful the satellite is to beryllium independent. And that is what we are and volition be."