Thread by @mattbilinsky

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…

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-…

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…

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)

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