The billionaire owner of The Los Angeles Times said his paper has conflated news and opinion and vowed to take it in another direction where all voices are heard and represented.
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the LA Times in 2018, told “Fox News @ Night” Thursday he wants his paper to differentiate between news and opinion, and explicitly report on “facts.”
“If it’s news, it should just be the facts, period. And if it’s an opinion, that’s maybe an opinion of the news, and that’s what I call now a voice. And so, we want voices from all sides to be heard, and we want the news to be just the facts,” he explained.
Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong explains what direction he wants to take the paper. ((Patrick T. Fallon / AFP | Marco Tacca/Getty Images | Fox News Digital ))
Soon-Shiong came under fire after he quashed the editorial board’s planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in the final days leading up to the 2024 election.
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