I'm not being an ahole, but how can we fight against this kind of crap. Almost all of the news is disseminated by right wing oligarchs.

We also have to vote with our wallets.

One cannot trust what one reads in the LA Times to be truthful, given that the owner's whims and priorities rule what appears in the paper or not. There is no good reason to trust that this behavior doesn't also infect the non-op-ed pages.

I am a world class cynic but this level of corruption is something I am still trying to understand. They have infiltrated every single information source and some democrats worry about our messaging.

…instead.

As a lifelong reader of the Los Angeles Times (minus the years I lived in Hawaii) , I have seen some ups and downs, especially when they were first sold and then sold again. But this is the first time I have ever seen an owner try to murder a great American newspaper that I personally know and love.

I was present for the demise of the Santa Barbara News-Press, which once upon a time had been the newspaper that blew the whistle on the John Birch Society and won a Pulitzer. They weren’t of the stature of the LAT, but they were quite important locally. Then they were purchased by (drumroll please) a billionaire, Wendy McCaw.

Dr. Sunshine has at his disposal a stellar roster of investigative reporters and columnists. He has betrayed them as surely as he has betrayed the readers. Whatever his original intent, the (drumroll please) South African billionaire has just chosen his class over his readers and the country.

We just renewed our subscription for a length of time that will take us past the Inauguration. By that time we will know what to do next.

I am relying on you to tell me where I am to go for honest coverage of — everything. A discussion board alone isn’t going to do.

We don’t know at this point where to turn because the lies are part of rich people’s controlling the information. Most people cannot parse the lies because It’s everywhere . I remember Ted Turner headline news was revolutionary but they want control and we can’t have the plebes being informed. I can’t tell you where to go but I like Jen Rubin on you tube and a few others. Maybe others here can help you. Change is difficult but I believe we can do it, we have to. All of our institutions are falling I believed people who owned newspapers believed it was necessary for our country to be informed and to make decisions based on that information, all that has changed . Everything now is a ? . That was a long response to say I don’t know.

When the oligarch owner stopped the endorsement of Biden, I pulled the plug. I hoped something would change quickly, but, unsurprisingly, it’s gotten worse. I feel for my brother and his family who live
in Silverlake. Their choices for local news are limited to non-existent. I live part time in Southern California and New Mexico. I’m not as reliant on neighborhood level coverage by the Times. When I cancelled the Times I began a subscription to the Riverside Press-Enterprise. I grew up with the P-E, too. I even reported for them for a brief stint. It is now part of a seemingly loose conglomerate of SoCal papers. (I’m a little wary because the conglomerate includes the Orange County Register which, when I was younger, anyway, leaned right. No signs of contamination so far.) They do a great job of covering Southern California. It’s almost as though both-sides-ism isn’t their mantra! Plus they cover LA sports. I wish the Santa Barbara paper had remained independent and joined this news group. So, the P-E is a local LA-adjacent recommendation.

For national news I contribute to ProPublica. I subscribe to The New Republic, the Guardian, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, the last two not being traditional sources, but providing insights. I cancelled the New Yorker when they full-throatedly joined the cacophony screaming for Biden to step down. I no longer turn on the television for news.

I think we all have to remain attuned to what sort of news we’re being asked to consume and therefore to cast our nets as widely as our budgets will allow. I’d love it if making America great again meant restoring our MSM. Obviously, I’m not holding my breath!

This election was all about class war — of the 1% against the middle class, with the uneducated/uninformed used as pawns — and Bezos and Soon-Shiong know it. Of course they chose money over journalism and democracy. That’s who they are.

Do what you want with your subscription, but here are a few suggestions, not meant to be comprehensive:

World/national news:

Associated Press
The Guardian
The Hill
National Journal
NYT

California/Los Angeles:

KCRW
Calmatters.org
LAist
LApublicpress.org
LA Business Journal
Streetsblog Los Angeles

Good luck, Buddy. You don't know nothing about nothing.

Cutting-edge medical technology company, and he's buddy-buddy with Melon Husk...

Like all the other billionaires, he's looking to cash in big time with Donnie

Wow, the next decade is going to suck massively

does anyone think they will stand up to him now?

... lesson one is do not obey advance. He explains how dictators like Hitler and Stalin were able to consolidate power because many people surrendered their freedoms without asking. It is very depressing to see how many people are obeying in advance.

They’re simply doing with their property what they paid for—to message right wing information.

He must be interested in continuing his medical research. I'm massively disappointed. As with Musk, who once seemed serious about addressing climate change. What is their core belief?

Bezos Post.

Was good news.

Pity.

would be outraged.

Dr. Patsy's daughter is still pissed at Kamala committing genocide in Gaza and doesn't want to risk adding to the regret many Trump voters may have for putting (in the words of The Holy Truth Seeker) "the Orange Bastard" back in the Oval Office?