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Dan Gillmor Oct 23, 2024

LA Times owner seems to be in league with Trump, vetoing a Harris endorsement and then letting the campaign use standard-issue lies to smear the paper for something it didn't do.

The editorial page editor quit in protest and she deserves our respect.

She has more courage than the vast majority of our political press corps, which still normalizes Trump and will be culpable if he -- and then Vance -- become America's fascist rulers.

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/los-angeles-times-editorials-editor-resigns-after-owner-blocks-presidential-endorsement.php

Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement

Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday, after the newspaper’s owner had blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president. “I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” Garza told me in a […]

Columbia Journalism Review

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FinchHaven infosec Oct 23, 2024

@dangillmor

Interesting

Wondered if there was a backstory here

Remember roughly when [he] bought the LA Times (the paper of record for my entire youth) and kinda went "hmm..." for some reason

Another rich guy, snapping up news media

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AI6YR Ben Oct 23, 2024

@FinchHaven @dangillmor I think a bit of this might be financial relationships/pressures applied here. Soon-Shiong's businesses are very closely tied to the investment community (he runs in the same circles as Vance and Musk --- one degree separation, as it were). The question is if it was applied pressure or it was his sense of "don't piss off colleagues".

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AI6YR Ben

@FinchHaven @dangillmor Also, being in this community as well (as an observer), it's likely that Musk and Soon-Shiong are very well acquainted due to their South African roots and both being billionaires/investors in LA (Musk less so now, but in prior years)