To the editor: This paper should not be liberal, conservative or reasonable. A newspaper such because the L.A. Occasions ought to have just one objective: correct and error-free in each reporting and expressing opinions. When a politician or different makes inaccurate statements, it’s the responsibility of a reputable newspaper to report the inaccuracies. “Inaccuracies” may or may not be lies. It depends upon the intent. Many at present aren’t solely uninformed, however tragically misinformed.
Roy Fassel, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I’ve digital subscriptions to 3 major-city newspapers, one in every of which is on the East Coast. I don’t want further opinion items, and I actually don’t want the L.A. Occasions to inform me if the writing is conservative or liberal. What I do want from the Occasions is for it to grow to be the undisputed chief in masking america west of the Rockies. That’s the hole I wanted stuffed.
A wonderful instance is Sunday’s lead story on how Mammoth Lakes is dependent on immigrant labor. Increase on that. Are different high-end ski resorts within the Sierra Nevada and Rockies equally dependent? What different Western companies depend upon the sort of labor? Ranchers? Loggers? Educate me concerning the wider area that has been my dwelling for almost 70 years, and that’s how you’ll make a dent in getting California subscriptions north of Santa Barbara. Don’t look to the New York Occasions. Give us one thing it doesn’t.
Diane Scholfield, Vista
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To the editor: The interview with the Los Angeles Occasions proprietor was disturbing. Information is information — info reported to the most effective of the reporters’ skills. Details are info. A machine telling me that these info are left or proper is offensive. Who’s answerable for the judgments of this machine?
Editorial opinion is opinion. I look to the Los Angeles Occasions to be biased towards the assist of our Structure and our democratic system, and to specific this in editorial opinion. Simply as info are info, proper is true.
Santa Barbara misplaced the Information Press, a venerable newspaper, based even earlier than the Los Angeles Occasions. Step one in its demise was the proprietor overruling the editorial employees.
Jim Wilson, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: I used to get the L.A. Occasions and stopped as a result of content material earlier than the pandemic. My spouse gave me a vacation present final 12 months and I actually loved the sports activities and enterprise pages. I believed in October that I’d cease subscribing by the tip of the 12 months as a result of the primary information and columns have been too one-sided. Every single day, I might scan most columnists’ titles and switch to the subsequent web page as a result of I already knew what they needed to put in writing. The proprietor Dr. Quickly-Shiong’s resolution in October to not endorse any presidential candidates was like recent air in a uninteresting room.
Sadly, the paper is in a deep blue metropolis/state and misplaced some subscribers, however conserving the newspaper reporting the reality and staying impartial ought to be the usual for media protection. I applaud Dr. Quickly-Shiong’s resolution and can proceed my assist and subscription so long as he’s the proprietor.
Hua Gu, Calabasas
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To the editor: I’ve been a subscriber for over 60 years and watched the regular decline of our newspaper. I simply learn an article about the way forward for the paper in an interview with Dr. Quickly-Shiong, and whereas attempting to maintain an open thoughts, I discover a few of his concepts troubling.
First off, I do agree that journalism ought to be truthful and unbiased. How he intends to go about it’s the place he loses me. How do you go about judging what’s left- or right-leaning … who makes that judgment, and are their very own biases driving that judgment? If in case you have a right-leaning report, how do you account for the reality? Everyone knows that the president-elect has been identified to brighten the reality. And what concerning the sports activities web page? Like a lot of the paper’s reporting, it offers you the data a day late.
I applaud his efforts however assume he has an extended method to go in making the paper what it as soon as was.
Allan Kretchman, Woodland Hills
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To the editor: I learn with nice curiosity James Rainey’s prolonged interview with L.A. Occasions writer Patrick Quickly-Shiong. I used to be outraged that Dr. Quickly-Shiong scotched a deliberate editorial arguing that President-elect Trump’s Cupboard ought to be topic to Senate affirmation as a result of there was no counterpoint article supporting the un-democratic strategy of recess appointments.
Your lead Sunday opinion blamed native air high quality regulators for not doing sufficient to curb air air pollution at L.A.’s ports. In Quickly-Shiong’s new world, would this imply a side-by-side editorial calling for dirtier air? Or, an editorial decrying an increase in vehicular manslaughter with one other article complaining there’s simply not sufficient of it?
Ken Wilson, Valley Village
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To the editor: As a liberal, I’m all in favor of the Occasions together with extra conservative opinion items. We study from listening to others. And it might be fantastic if this contributes to bringing liberals and conservatives out of their echo chambers right into a shared dialogue round a shared understanding of the info, points and tradeoffs.
However there are some regarding questions on what selections the Time might be making. Will we begin seeing opinion items from the paranoid and fact-phobic wing of conservatism? Will information tales stop reporting the truth that there isn’t any proof of elections being stolen? Will assertions that local weather change is actual and largely man-made be labeled as liberal bias?
I ponder what related questions conservative subscribers will increase?
Michael Snare, San Diego
