CALMATTERS: The collapse of California’s news industry is so severe it’ll require taxpayer support to rebuild | Columns


Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is probably one of the more generous newspaper owners in the country – and he just announced devastating layoffs at the Los Angeles Times.

It’s a bewildering juxtaposition, and it should give pause to those of us who spend our time blaming bumbling billionaires, rapacious hedge funds and larcenous tech companies for the collapse of local news.



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