NARRATIVE – The owner of the title intends to shake up the editorial line of the most widely read daily on the west coast, traditionally pro-democrat. During the presidential campaign, he prevented the newspaper from speaking out in favor of the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris.
The start of the January school year promises to be electric in the corridors of Los Angeles Times . Still shaken by the unprecedented position adopted by the management during the presidential campaign, the editorial staff of the Californian daily is divided on the introduction of a tool based on artificial intelligence, a « bias meter » (objectivity barometer), supposed to measure the bias of articles published by the media. This technological tool, due to be introduced this month, will indicate whether or not a journalist adopts a particular political bias in their writing. If the answer is yes, the reader will have the opportunity to be offered one or more texts offering an alternative point of view on the subject covered in the publication.
The initiator of this upheaval is none other than Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the Los Angeles Times since 2018. The hunt for political bias seems to be the new obsession of this Californian billionaire, known for having made his fortune…
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