It has been a tough year for the LA Times. Earlier this year the paper underwent a round of layoffs amounting to 20% of the staff. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the paper’s owner, had been covering the paper’s losses of $30-$40 million per year, but said he couldn’t keep that going any longer. Naturally there was some whining from the left including the paper’s union which held a walkout in protest, but the cuts were made anyway.
The year ended with another outrage when Dr. Soon-Shiong told the paper it could not publish an endorsement of Kamala Harris. Several people on the editorial staff quit over that and what followed was a series of sometimes conflicting statements about why this decision had been made. It started with this claim on X, saying the editorial board was given an option and chose to remain silent.
So many comments about the @latimes Editorial…
