LA Times owner blocked Kamala endorsement to protest Gaza war, daughter reveals
Source: AOL News
The Los Angeles Times billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked his newspaper from endorsing Vice President Harris to protest her support of Israels war in Gaza, his daughter reveled on Saturday.
Nika Soon-Shiong, a 31-year-old far-left political activist, has been accused in the past of having undo influence at the paper, where she has no formal role.
Our family made the joint decision not to endorse a Presidential candidate. This was the first and only time I have been involved in the process, the younger Soon-Shiong said in a statement to the The New York Times.
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Petty and stupid.
FarPoint
(13,706 posts)I just don't believe it
rpannier
(24,598 posts)She's lying
She's trying to provide him with cover
LauraInLA
(1,355 posts)Vinca
(51,235 posts)People should realize that either Harris or Trump will be elected and one prefers peace and will work for it, the other doesn't.
yardwork
(64,735 posts)Viewing Israel through the lens of American colonialism is a mistake. The two histories have very little in common.
America, including the United States, was colonized by Europeans who conducted deliberate genocide, while simultaneously building an economy on the labor of enslaved people. Our history is ours to own and reckon with.
The history of Israel is one of defense and refuge from thousands of years of anti-Jewish oppression, culminating (but not ending) in deliberate genocide in the 1940s by Nazis and Muslim Arabs, who sought to kill every Jew in the Middle East. Israel has made mistakes but their intention is one of safety and refuge, not domination.
hlthe2b
(106,758 posts)Roy Rolling
(7,207 posts)And they wonder why newspapers are struggling.
Look at some of their owners.
Easterncedar
(3,647 posts)RockRaven
(16,528 posts)And the rich dickhead denies it. Who cares which one is lying? In either scenario my opinion of both is poor. A pox on them both either way.
yaesu
(8,356 posts)mn9driver
(4,594 posts)This is clearly BS.
BaronChocula
(2,522 posts)the paper would have made a statement of no endorsement.
Blue for the win
(81 posts)Well someone that ignorant shouldn't have any say so at all. Maybe her daddy found that out now
ismnotwasm
(42,478 posts)TBF
(34,748 posts)Trump is the one who is going to pave Gaza to put up his luxury condos. Does he think Palestinians will be invited to live in them? This is the dumbest excuse I've ever heard.
republianmushroom
(18,179 posts)NotHardly
(1,365 posts)malthaussen
(17,786 posts)Otherwise, bullshit.
-- Mal
IL Dem
(852 posts)Having said that, there's this:
"having undo influence at the paper,"
A pet peeve of mine. A professional writer should know the difference between "undo" and "undue".