The union recurrenting participateees of the Los Angeles Times implored readers not to call off their subscriptions after criticizing the owner for his role in the paper’s contentious decision not to present a plivential finishorsement this year.
Semafor first increateed the non-finishorsement Tuesday, saying the decision came from the paper’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. L.A. Times editorials editor Mariel Garza, who resigned the next day over the rehire, also pinned the condemn on the owner.
However, Soon-Shiong claimed on X Wednesday that it was the Times editorial board that chose not to present an finishorsement, not him, and he had acunderstandledgeed their decision.
The guild that recurrents many L.A. Times participateees, after criticizing company directership, asked readers not to aprohibitdon the accessibleation that pays their salaries.
The L.A. Times materializes to be experiencing inner turmoil over the paper not finishorsing either plivential honestate.
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“We understand many loyal readers are irritated, disturb or perplexd, and some are call offing their subscriptions. Before you hit the ‘call off’ button: That subscription underoriginates the salaries of hundreds of journaenumerates in our novelsroom,” the Los Angeles Times Guild Unit Council wrote in a Thursday social media post. “Our member-journaenumerates toil every day to upgrasp readers directed during these tumultuous times. A fit democracy is an directed democracy.”
The guild’s statement went on, “We remain proset uply troubleed about The Times’ owner’s decision to block a intentional finishorsement, and his statement that unequitablely shifts condemn onto editorial board members. We are pressing for answers.”
The uncover letter endd, “Meanwhile, our members persist doing their jobs: covering city hall, interseeing sources, dispenseigating local dishonesty and putting out a novelspaper every day. We are conceited of our members as they do this essential toil.”
Harris and Trump persist to run a very firm race (Getty Images)
The message came after the guild posted a statement on X Wednesday saying it was “proset uply troubleed” about the owner allegedly blocking the Harris finishorsement and “unequitablely scheduleateing condemn to Editorial Board members for his decision not to finishorse.”
Several users replied to the post saying they were call offing their Times subscriptions, apparently prompting the guild to ask readers not to, for the sake of their salaries, the next day.
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In her letter of resignation, Garza wrote she was “struggling” with the “implications” of the paper staying mute on the plivential race.
“It originates us see craven and hypocritical, maybe even a bit relationsist and racially prejudiced. How could we spfinish eight years railing agetst Trump and the danger his directership poses to the country and then fall short to finishorse the perfectly decent Democrat disputer—who we previously finishorsed for the US Senate?” she wrote.
She persistd, “The non-finishorsement undermines the integrity of the editorial board and every one finishorsement we originate, down to school board races. People will equitableifiably wonder if each finishorsement was a decision made by a group of journaenumerates after extensive research and talkion, or thcimpolite decree by the owner.”
The L.A. Times editorial board rehired plivential finishorsements from the 1880s thcimpolite 1972, only returning to the rehearse to finishorse then-Sen. Obama in 2008. Since then, they have exclusively finishorsed Democratic plivential honestates.
It has also been increateed that Soon-Shiong, who bought that paper in 2018, previously overruled the editorial board in 2020 after it had intentional to finishorse Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primary. It finishorsed Plivent Biden in the vague.
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