LA Times owner: “I'm looking for people like Scott Jennings” in order to make the editorial board “fair and balanced”
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From the November 14, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox News @ Night
TRACE GALLAGHER (ANCHOR): When you talk about the editorial board, because -- when you tweeted, it seemed like you were going to get rid of the entire editorial board. They haven't all left. Is that the plan? To redo the entire editorial board or just fill in the people that have left?
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG (LOS ANGELES TIMES OWNER): Again, I think it's important for us to differentiate. The editorial board is responsible for these opinions on these voices. So right now we don't have an editorial board if we were a truly -- about ourselves -- that are balanced. And so I've gotten beaten up about fair and balanced. So I'm looking for people like Scott Jennings. Scott Jennings, who is on CNN and he's one out of six usually in the room, where we need to have all voices, the right, the left, and the moderate, the center. And I think it's important because the editors are responsible of stories that are told, stories are not told. Editors have this nuances of the word hatred versus could the president-elect make a real impact. And we need views from both sides and my goal is now to change the entire editorial board for that perspective.