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.
Dear Unemployed Latina,
If you weren’t a ‘Hatemonger’, you wouldn’t be unemployed..............
We don’t wanna be socialists, but our government has not been able to prevent monopolies or oligopolies from forming. They are to influential and just like big tech, government is impotent in breaking them up.
Then government itself has through regulatory means defined what the markets look like: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/biden-set-target-50-evs-by-2030-industry-backs-goal-2021-08-05/
Something needs to change. This is no longer a free and competitive market where the “consumer” defines it.
Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Agreed—I have always been a big fan of Teddy Roosevelt’s trust busting.
The Big Tech companies need to be broken up into a million pieces.
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Just what we need more of...Hatemongers. SMDH
Sounds like a CCP operation and the gal is vying for a seat near Xi Jinping at the annual CCP meeting.
LOL, perfect!
“She’s a bad dude.”
bkmk
He sounds like another Soros.
Beauty that the Times lost tens of millions of dollars, has already laid off hundreds of employees, and is now fighting between laying off long-time union workers versus recent “diversity” hires.
Delicious.
So this guys socialist daughter owns the LA times now and it is failing?
Oh that is sweet!
This year - 2024 - Mexicans will become the largest ethnic group in LA County. During the Mexican’s rise to majority, LA has been racially cleansed of blacks. For example, Watts, which was once 100% black, is now 80% Mexican.
How did that happen? Nobody knows. The leftist, racist media has refused to cover or investigate how or why black citizens in LA County have disappeared. Will the Asian demographic be the next to vanish? Stay tuned...
And for FReepers who predicted years ago that Mexicans would take over California, give yourselves a pat on the back. You’re prescient and should visit the casinos with regularity.
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