Posted on 01/26/2024 7:50:03 AM PST by Red Badger
A billionaire bought one of America’s biggest newspapers. Then he put his 28-year old daughter with deep ties to socialist organizations in charge
You may have seen the articles, but it’s actually worse than reported…
And the consequences could affect every resident of LA🧵👇
This is Patrick Soon-Shiong. He’s a doctor and bio-tech entrepreneur with reported net worth of over $8 Billion. (1/20)
He bought a piece of the Lakers off Magic Johnson. (2/20)
He also owns the LA Times. Which despite its flailing circulation and revenue, remains an important civic asset. (3/20)
amp.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul…
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/21/los-angeles-times-new-owner-patrick-soon-shiong-interview
This is his daughter Nika - a trust fund kid who considers herself an “activist” of sorts. Lets take a look at how Nika’s activism is impacting the world. (4/20)
Nika is somehow Public Safety Commissioner of West Hollywood. (5/20)
Her only qualifications appear to be an MA in African Studies & a BA in Intl. Relations form Stanford….and a rich father who owns the city’s biggest newspaper. (6/20)
She’s a contributor to Knock LA - a proudly Socialist organization. Their logo - a fist in the air. (7/20)
You may have noticed the defunding of the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Department in June. That was all Nika. (8/20)
Despite a 137% rise in crime in WeHo, Nika - in her infinite trust-fund kid wisdom - figured the city needed LESS law enforcement and more “unarmed security ambassadors”. (9/20)
Last week Politico released an article on how Patrick essentially put Nika in charge of the LA Times and made it her play toy for her “activist” hobbies. (10/20) politico.com/amp/news/2022/…
Nika’s brilliant editorial choices include getting the paper to refrain from using the word “looting” to describe people who were…. looting. Brilliant stuff. (11/20)
She’s also using the paper to endorse local candidates. Including her friend, Kenneth Mejia, candidate for Los Angeles City Controller. (12/20)
Mejia is proudly in favor of defunding the police and thinks Joe Biden is a “racist and a rapist”. (13/20) cd5hoas.org/2022-election-…
https://cd5hoas.org/2022-election-cycle/2022-controller/disturbing-comments-made-by-city-controller-candidate-kenneth-mejia/ With Nika’s influence we have the city’s most important newspaper endorsing candidates that are clearly unfit and a threat to public safety. (14/20)
The situation is creating dissension at the Times. Staffers don’t seem to like being ordered around by the owner’s daughter who has done nothing to earn the right. (15/20)
Nika clearly doesn’t feel the need to apologize. She seems to think the LA Times is insufficiently enlightened on public safety issues and that she’s entitled to correct these flaws. (16/20)
But she doesn’t seem quite so proud of her success in defunding the WeHo Sheriff’s Dept. Since she convinced the Times not to report on it. (17/20)
Now Nika is headed back to Oxford to finish up her academic career. While she’s left us back here in LA to deal with the real world consequences of her trust-fund wisdom. (18/20)
Meanwhile, we have elections coming up in Nov. and defund activists supported by the likes of Nika, Knock LA, & the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) may prevail. (19/20) city-journal.org/socialists-ris…
Socialists Rising in L.A.
The Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has emerged as the clear winner of the city’s June 7 primary in the weeks since ballot counting began. Five out of the nine candidates o…
https://www.city-journal.org/socialists-rising-in-los-angeles
Regardless of how the elections turn out, it seems that if all Patrick Soon-Shiong is going to do with the LA Times is let his daughter use it as her activist blog, he’s better off selling it to someone who will steward it responsibly. Do you agree? (20/20)
Ok since this is getting a lot of traction…Re-tweet the 1st post in this thread if you think media manipulation in America is a problem.
He’s so smart, but he bought the LA Times? LOL
Just great.
LA is sinking faster than the Titanic.
This guy knows how to ingratiate himself with the deep-state
If you want to protect your $$billions, if you are lucky enough to have got it in the first place, one must demonstrate loyalty and provide some political service to the Reich.
Her name wouldn’t be Rose by any chance?
Jeff Bezos “Jr.”...
He bought his spoiled daughter a new toy......The LA TIMES...........
Turns out, she does not have the intelligence of a caveman.
WIKI
Patrick Soon-Shiong (born July 29, 1952) is a American transplant surgeon, billionaire businessman, bioscientist, and media proprietor. He is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, which became known for its efficacy against lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer.
Soon-Shiong has published more than 100 scientific papers and has more than 230 issued patents worldwide on advancements spanning numerous fields in technology and medicine.
Soon-Shiong was born in Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa (modern day South Africa), to Chinese immigrant parents who fled from China during the Japanese occupation in World War II. His parents were Hakka originally from Meixian District in Guangdong province. His ancestral surname is Wong.
Soon-Shiong performed the first whole-pancreas transplant done at UCLA, and he developed and first performed the experimental Type 1 diabetes-treatment known as encapsulated-human-islet transplant, and the “first pig-to-man islet-cell transplant in diabetic patients.”
In early 2016, Soon-Shiong launched the National Immunotherapy Coalition to encourage rival pharmaceutical companies to work together to test combinations of cancer-fighting drugs. He has also met numerous times with former vice president and current US president Joe Biden to discuss more ambitious approaches to fighting cancer, including conducting genomic sequencing of 100,000 patients to create a massive database of potential genetic factors.
In February 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported that Soon-Shiong’s investment firm NantCapital reached a deal to purchase the paper and The San Diego Union-Tribune from Tronc Inc. for “nearly $500 million in cash” as well as the assumption of $90 million in pension obligations. Soon-Shiong, with this acquisition, became one of the first Asian-Americans to be a media proprietor through ownership in a major daily newspaper in the United States. The sale closed on June 18, 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Soon-Shiong
She got a Shing in her Shiong?Oh my goodness!
LASlimes continues to hide, cover up the video of Obama’s anti-USA and antisemitic talk from before his “election”
that’s a long time, it demonstrates a firm commitment to protecting the communist leftwing agenda against America.
as does much of LASlime’s “news coverage”
The interesting thing is, the extreme leftists don’t buy or manage businesses to be economically successful or to deliver good products/services. instead, they run the businesses as TOOLS with which to attack America and our nation’s moral standards, values. they do this even when it runs the business down, costs the shareholders tons of money
and messes over the consumers/patrons.
thinking,
WashPost, NYSlimes, LASlimes, NFL, Target,......etcetera.
This “communist usurpation and radical activist redeployment” is a growing part of what is known as DBM (death by management) in the business world
That guy also has the worst hair-do I’ve ever seen on a human being.
It is intentional..................
definitely intentional, agreed
and to a degree, coordinated too
He bought his daughter a playtoy.
Nepotism is fun for the whole family.
It is a disaster for the rest of the employees.
Almost all of the MSM is owned by a few oligarchs, or is beholden to them and the corporations and financial institutions they run.
Buffett, Bezos, Gates... Then the heads of the six major media conglomerates...
You once owed your body to the company store: https://youtu.be/tfp2O9ADwGk?si=9NbWMm9tXXqCCiey
Today, they own your mind.
Yeah, for the better.
The lefty LA Times has insulted its readers for years by being über pro-illegal immigration, printing sob story after sob story on its front pages - how illegals face oppression, hatred and discrimination.
I quit 20 years ago, never looked back and haven't read a single issue since that time- and it looks like none of my neighbors are subscribers as well.
Boo Freakin' Hoo:
“We will increase circulation by doing something no other media outlet is doing. We will be critical of Donald Trump”
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