LA Times owner defends remaking paper to Tucker Carlson
Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong defended his decision to pull back his editorial board’s planned endorsement of former Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview on far-right host Tucker Carlson’s podcast.
“I said, ‘This is unacceptable.’ And as you can see, because it’s a left lean, they wrote terrible stories about President [Donald] Trump,” Soon-Shiong told Carlson in an interview that aired Wednesday. “So my statement to them was, ‘You may have an opinion, but all of us should have opinions based on facts.’”
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