Apparently, taking an op-ed that warned about the havoc RFK Jr. would cause to public health, changing it w/o the author's permission, and then having the billionaire owner pretend it supported RFK Jr's nomination didn't magically rebuild trust in media at the LA Times. Who coulda predicted? - ThreadSky

mmasnick.bsky.social • 28 days ago

Apparently, taking an op-ed that warned about the havoc RFK Jr. would cause to public health, changing it w/o the author's permission, and then having the billionaire owner pretend it supported RFK Jr's nomination didn't magically rebuild trust in media at the LA Times.

Who coulda predicted?

Reposted from Sewell Chan

NEW: Mere weeks after historic wildfires, the Los Angeles Times just offered buyouts to anyone who’s been at the company for longer than two years.

From the COO’s note to staff: “The economic landscape of the media industry continues to be extremely challenging.“

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lchabolla.bsky.social•28 days ago

@latimes.com heading for the dark side.

drunemeton.bsky.social•28 days ago

They’re one of MANY media outlets that I’ve blocked on every source of media I have.

Utter Trash!

drjamesjteeth.bsky.social•28 days ago

These papers could be mildly profitable and support journalists if their owners let them be run as newspapers instead of propaganda rags or cash cows. The owners killed the industry. Journalist owned media may be the only way back.

independentmedia.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yes exactly, time for all the 'real' journalists to move to independent media and news papers, and let the Billionaire owners of papers be nothing more than propaganda sites that bleed money. Let them form their own papers and Jen Ruben and Norm Eisen did or coalesce around existing independents.

emmabrody.bsky.social•27 days ago

Deeply sad. The reporting on the wildfires has been extraordinary.

This is the full-on continuation of right wing grabbing of journalism. I know so many people who work for the LATIMES. Good, honest people.

libertyogre.bsky.social•27 days ago

Couldn’t happen to a better paper.

eltopo71.com•28 days ago

Maybe openly and cravenly interfering in the day to day operations of the newspaper was not the best strategy Patrick Soon-Shiong could have adopted. At least Bezos bothered to try and create the impression of independence, however transparently bullshit it was.

berfield.com•28 days ago

Every time I hit the LA Times paywall, I just laugh.

cermatori.bsky.social•27 days ago

!!!

thatac.bsky.social•28 days ago

2025 the year humans finally learned, the truly stupid can have money.

garysnyder.bsky.social•28 days ago

More, the good doctor is purging the paper of knowledge by dismissing its most veteran journalists.

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