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The owner of Los Angeles Times was slapped with a community note after the author behind a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The opinion article accused the document of editing his criticism of the nominee of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner and Executive President of the Times, He tweeted a link to a recent opinion article in the article entitled “Trump’s health interruption could bear fruit, if he pushes a real reform.”
“He is our best opportunity to do it,” added Soon-Shiong.
The owner of Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong. ((Patrick T. Fallon / AFP | Marco Tacca / Getty images | Fox News Digital))))))))
But its publication was quickly stamped with a hard community note: “The author of this article says that the Times edited his clear opposition to RFK Jr. without his consent and gave him a headline that directly contradicts the point he was trying to do.”
Eric Reinhart, social psychiatrist and author of The opinion article in question, On Friday, tweeted that his article received a deceptive title “and had a cut of” key lines “that made Rfk Jr. clear it is” dangerously ignorant “and is” effectively a mass murderer in waiting. “
“My first time working with Los Angeles Times, and I also hope my last,” he added.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Trump’s candidate to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services attest during a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the Senate for his pending confirmation in Capitol Hill, on Thursday, January 30, 2025 , in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lampkey, Jr.)
Reinhart revealed that his suggested title for the opinion article was “the RFK JR demolition ball will not fix public health” and that the opening and closing lines of the piece do not leave their position on the nominated “ambiguous” of the HHS.
“The editors edit and control the final copy and hed; continuous.
Later, Reinhart had the original version of his piece published by the New Republic with a new title: “The opinion article by RFK Jr. The Los Angeles Times did not want you to read.”
The building and editorial room of Los Angeles Times along Imperial Highway on Friday, April 17, 2020 in the second, CA. ((Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times through Getty Images)))
The opinion author later described the incident of the Times as a “scandal” and suggested that it is “symptomatic of the oligarchic acquisition of the US media and politics.”
In a statement given to NPR For a spokesman on the Times, the article said that its opinion editors work with opinion taxpayers to edit pieces for length, clarity and precision, among other things.
“No opinion pieces are published, as was published, without the author’s permission. It includes the opinion article written by Eric Reinhart,” said the spokesman.
Soon-Shiong publicly praised RFK Jr. last Tuesday, saying he hoped to be confirmed. Soon-Shiong told him before Fox News Digital That Kennedy’s questions about what Americans eat are legitimate problems to raise.
The Times immediately returned the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
