EXCLUSIVE- The owner of the billion Los Angeles Times, Dr. Patrick Soon Shiong made titles with his efforts to renew his newspaper and make it a more reliable source for a wider part of California and the country.
It also has a goal that is more ambitious and more important than anything involving newspaper media: cure for cancer. And he is ready to work with President Donald Trump to do so.
“Very so,” he told Fox News Digital, when asked if he was ready to work with Trump’s administration. “We have the opportunity as a nation.”
In addition to possession of time, soon is Shiong transplant surgeon, medical researcher and biotechnical entrepreneur serving as Nantworks bossHolding Society “dedicated to the transformation of health care and the use of artificial intelligence to win the war against cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.”
Owner Los Angeles Times Patrick Soon-Shoong. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP | Marco Tacca / Getty Images | Fox News Digital)))
One of his main interests is now an address greater frequency Cancer rates in younger people, as well as the continuation of the decade of work on the development of cancer vaccine. Last year, a fundamental element of a vaccine called Anktiva was approved Food and medicines for use in some cancer patients. Soon Shiong said he was acting on improvement and “educating” natural bodies killers that help fight infections.
“We have the foundation of cancer vaccine and approach the cure as much as you can be, because for the first time we understand science,” he said.
Soon, in his career career in his career, he has repeatedly appeared during an interview with Fox News Digital about his ownership of a newspaper, which in recent months has become an object of intense control while making a number of moves that some have celebrated as further delay and Inherited to critics as mixing and harmful.
Inhering what he called poorly considered approval Vice -President Kamala Harris last year, bringing CNN CNN conservative commentator to Scott Jennings to the editorial board, and calling the liberal stain of his own publication caused internal and external restlessness. The Harris decision particularly caused the resignation of the staff and the reported 20,000 canceled subscriptions.
CNN commentator Scott Jennings. (Cnn)
Soon Shiong said Fox News Digital He expected the filling to stop Harris’s confirmation and defended the move as about the evaluation of competence, pointing to a much criticized local response to devastating fires in Los Angeles as a result of incompetence.
Was encouraged by his decision on Harris’s approval Sour articles About the owners of the newspaper newspaper such as him and Chief Washington Post Jeff Bezos, and employees of La Times pushed journalists about his leadership.
Last year, he also had a controversial interview with former CNN journalist Oliver Darcy for his status newsletter on the bringing of Jennings on board, Darcy takes the exception Soon Shiong pushing against the idea that the then -chosen Trump lied to the abnormal rate and former La Times writer Jim Newton called soon-shiong A bad owner and a “chatty bloviator” in the work to reconsider Columbia Journalism.
Past reports By politics and Stat News Soon, Shiong painted as smart and ambitious, but also as a self-prescriber with a tendency for Bluster.
Responding to the idea that he sought to gain affection with Trump, he said his ultimate goal came before anything else.
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“I had a good relationship with President Trump 2016 when he was first elected,” he told Fox News Digital. “I have a good relationship ongoing. There is no fear or anything. I try to cure cancer and I don’t think you worry if you are a Republican or a democrat when you have cancer. My goal is to cure cancer. And you know, I started the moon cancer during the biden administration and there very little happened. “
Patrick soon shiong wants La Times to like all Americans. (Left: (Photo Axelle/Bauer-Giffin/Filmmagic), right: (Photo Kirby Lee/Getty Images))
Politically, it’s hard to score. He Donated campaign Hillary Clinton In 2016, as well as several national democratic parties they cycling, according to the federal subjugation, but after Trump won that year, he had dinner with the new elected president. Recently donated to the Republicans, including Mike Pence’s presidential campaign 2023.
On Tuesday he praised publicly Robert Kennedy Jr.Trump’s lightning candidate to run the Ministry of Health and Human Service, saying that he hoped he was confirmed. Soon Shiong told Fox News Digital that Kennedy’s questions about what Americans are ate legitimate questions.
He hopes that his newspaper, and the media industry as a whole will focus more on the facts and less on speculation because the other Trump administration begins.
“The opportunity to look at the factual actions, not rhetoric, so important to the next four years will [be telling]”He said, later adding,” when I told our editorial board, just inhale, don’t just jump into a conclusion based on speculation, that’s really what I mean. I think we have to stop guessing and just waiting and seeing what is really going on. “
Asked if he considered himself an ideologist or apolitical, he replied with a laugh: “I consider myself a Americans who is really practical, as a surgeon with common sense … who wants to cure cancer and help all people.”
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“An independent thinker, a critical thinker who wants to help the nation,” he added. “And look, President Trump is elected. We should all work together to help him succeed.”
