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But Soon-Shiong’s meddling has been “much broader in scope” than the quashing of that one op-ed, wrote Darcy, quoting the memo to Tang as accusing the owner of having “instituted a new policy” — applying only to Trump — “that prohibits editorials containing criticism of the president-elect unless they are presented side-by-side with another opinion piece representing the ‘opposing view.’”

This has “effectively killed or indefinitely delayed multiple editorials that have been written and edited but remain unpublished,” the memo continued, and Soon-Shiong has also mandated that the editorial board email him “the text of every editorial and the name of its writer” before anything can be published.

“Morale in the newsroom has plummeted in recent weeks,” Darcy wrote, with one staffer rating the “spirit of the newsroom” as “[o]n a scale of 0 to 10, it’s a negative 5.”