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Los Angeles Times Owner’s Daughter Defends Not Making Presidential Endorsement: “Genocide Is The Line In The Sand”


Afrer 'LA Times' owner Patrick Soon-Shiong decided not to make a presidential endorsement, his politician/activist daughter Nika has made a statement

Nika explained that her father served as an emergency surgeon in the 1976 Soweto uprising, in which at least 176 died protesting racial segregation amid South Africa’s Apartheid, which she compared to the “plausible genocide” in Gaza. The paper’s editorials editor Mariel Garza subsequently announced her resignation, with veteran journalists Robert Greene and Karin Klein having since followed her lead, according to the AP. The bargaining committee of the LA Times Guild Unit Council has said they are “deeply concerned about our owner’s decision to block a planned endorsement in the presidential race.

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