Comments on: Newsroom Meddling, Money Woes: How A Billionaire Owner Lost His Star Editor at the Los Angeles Times | Exclusive https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/ Your trusted source for breaking entertainment news, film reviews, TV updates and Hollywood insights. Stay informed with the latest entertainment headlines and analysis from TheWrap. Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:47:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: badboj https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-26560 Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:47:29 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-26560 In reply to Phil Rose.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

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By: Mari https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-21576 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:16:37 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-21576 I only know one person who reads the LATimes. She’s in her 60s.  LA and S California is an area of immigrants. They have no sympathy for native born black criminals. But for my entire long lifetime LATimes defends black criminals and makes heroes out of them. Many Angelenos blamed LATimes anti police pro black criminal coverage for the destructive Rodney King riots.  The black percentage of California declines every year. But the LATimes covers black issues and ignores every other demographic.  Worse, LATimes always always advocates for black criminals, against police and ignores the victims Always. And encourages black riots.
It seems the editors and every single writer thinks it’s 1960 and they are marching with Martin Luther King and Los Angeles is the rural south where blacks are lunched as sport every week by the KKK members And all Los Angeles police are Nazis or KKK members. And the huge percentage of not black not White immigrants aren’t interested in the massive coverage of black issues.

It’s 2023, not 1963 the civil rights era. Los Angeles isn’t a majority black city like Washington DC Atlanta or Detroit  LATimes is 60 years out of date. And needs to look at the census.  
Angelinos want criminals off the street. We don’t want to be attacked robbed and worse.  And we don’t want to read articles glorifying criminals and making heroes out of them. LATimes has made saints out of criminals my entire long lifetime  

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By: wolflen https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-21540 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 22:42:01 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-21540 In reply to Robert.

ahhh..and a “far left/progressive” opinion “newspaper” at that..!

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By: Frank https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-21537 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 22:13:15 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-21537 Not going to grow subscriber base as long as it remains a left wing echo chamber, vice a true news source.

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By: Robert https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-21533 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:36:26 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-21533 In reply to MICHAEL PARDRIDGE.

Precisely. One should not be able to tell at all the political leanings of a journalist .. I recall when Dan Rather and others caused a stir when they stated that a reporter imbedded with the Viet Cong should not warn Allied troops of walking in a trap, due to the strict adherence to the code of being a fly on the wall with no opinion .. and yes sticking to it does take toll, but that is the job and the calling .. as with Priests at Confession.

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By: Robert https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-21532 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:33:16 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-21532 In reply to bruce dickson.

Younger generations do not read. Furthermore, those twenty “journalists” should have been fired, not suspended. That said, I don’t know how the LA Times could become even more amateurish than it already has become, so who knows, it *might* become better.

(But The Prospect is the last model I would use in such effort. That is not a paper at all, but an opinion magazine.)

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By: MICHAEL PARDRIDGE https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-21529 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:00:35 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-21529 I have subscribed to the LA Times, continually without interruption since 1966 when I went to USC on a Journalism scholarship.  I cancelled last week.  I just got sick and tired of opinions blatantly woven into so-called “news” stories, always bursting with far-from-subtle loaded language.  It’s not a newspaper anymore and hasn’t been for some time now.  It is, like most, now simply a member of the Pfizer Media Group.  Soon-Shiong is sure to lose many, many more millions. 

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By: wolflen https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-21528 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:59:21 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-21528 A very good insight into the inner workings of the paper.

The reality is the paper has no competition in print media and is in financial crisis.
The owner and his daughter have influenced, if not controlled the content of the editorials with the major theme of “..I know whats good for you / Do as your told!..” As I watch the paper die, as did “progressive talk radio” years back..in this digital age I wonder..will it be missed at all.

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By: DB https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-21525 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:29:22 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-21525 Usually those who own media outlets just hire and promote people who hold the same political views as they do and retire or refuse to promote those who don’t.

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By: Phil Rose https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-kevin-merida-billionaire-patrick-soon-shiong-meddling/#comment-21520 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:33:52 +0000 https://www.thewrap.com/?p=7440066#comment-21520 I’m sorry but if he OWNS it it isn’t meddling.  It’s running his business as he sees fit.  Journalists hate accountability.  

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