Pat Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, shared on Monday that he believed his paper’s endorsement of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during the 2022 mayoral campaign was “a mistake.”
“So, at the L.A. Times, we endorsed Karen Bass. I think, right now, upfront, that’s a mistake, and we admit that,” Soon-Shiong said. “So, I thought it was very important early on for me to come out.”
“And I think we were one of the few to say competence matters,” he continued while appearing on the online show The Morning Meeting.
The paper executive said there should be deeper thought into “how we elect people.”
“An interesting thing is that maybe we should think about how we elect people on the basis of did they actually run a job? Did they actually make a payroll? Do they understand what it is?” he asked.
Soon-Shiong called out “professional…
