To the editor: This paper should not be liberal, conservative or reasonable. A newspaper such because the L.A. Instances ought to have just one purpose: 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 won’t be lies. It relies on the intent. Many right this moment usually are not 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. Instances to inform me if the writing is conservative or liberal. What I do want from the Instances is for it to turn out to be the undisputed chief in protecting america west of the Rockies. That’s the hole I wanted crammed.
A wonderful instance is Sunday’s lead story on how Mammoth Lakes is dependent on immigrant labor. Broaden on that. Are different high-end ski resorts within the Sierra Nevada and Rockies equally dependent? What different Western companies rely on this kind of labor? Ranchers? Loggers? Educate me in regards to the wider area that has been my dwelling for practically 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 Instances. Give us one thing it doesn’t.
Diane Scholfield, Vista
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To the editor: The interview with the Los Angeles Instances proprietor was disturbing. Information is information — details reported to the perfect of the reporters’ skills. Information are details. A machine telling me that these details are left or proper is offensive. Who’s liable for the judgments of this machine?
Editorial opinion is opinion. I look to the Los Angeles Instances to be biased towards the help of our Structure and our democratic system, and to specific this in editorial opinion. Simply as details are details, proper is true.
Santa Barbara misplaced the Information Press, a venerable newspaper, based even earlier than the Los Angeles Instances. Step one in its demise was the proprietor overruling the editorial workers.
Jim Wilson, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: I used to get the L.A. Instances and stopped as a result of content material earlier than the pandemic. My spouse gave me a vacation reward final yr and I actually loved the sports activities and enterprise pages. I believed in October that I might cease subscribing by the tip of the yr as a result of the principle information and columns have been too one-sided. Daily, I may scan most columnists’ titles and switch to the subsequent web page as a result of I already knew what they needed to write down. The proprietor Dr. Quickly-Shiong’s determination 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 holding the newspaper reporting the reality and staying impartial must be the usual for media protection. I applaud Dr. Quickly-Shiong’s determination and can proceed my help 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 must 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? When you’ve got a right-leaning report, how do you account for the reality? Everyone knows that the president-elect has been identified to decorate the reality. And what in regards to 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 suppose he has an extended approach 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. Instances writer Patrick Quickly-Shiong. I used to be outraged that Dr. Quickly-Shiong scotched a deliberate editorial arguing that President-elect Trump’s Cupboard must be topic to Senate affirmation as a result of there was no counterpoint article supporting the un-democratic means 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 Instances together with extra conservative opinion items. We study from listening to others. And it could be great if this contributes to bringing liberals and conservatives out of their echo chambers right into a shared dialogue round a shared understanding of the details, points and tradeoffs.
However there are some regarding questions on what selections the Time will likely 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 comparable questions conservative subscribers will increase?
Michael Snare, San Diego
