Opinion | Soon-Shiong and Bezos provide fresh evidence for the downsides of billionaire news ownership

But disappointment with them should not be extrapolated as proof that newspaper ownership by a wealthy patron just doesn’t work. Sometimes it does.

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This has been a tough fall for super-rich newspaper owners. Both Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns the Los Angeles Times, pulled presidential endorsements pre-publication. Denials notwithstanding, it sure looked as if they were protecting the primary businesses that made them billionaires from the wrath of Donald Trump. Fierce internal criticism and resignations followed.

Each was back in the news on Wednesday. Bezos was interviewed at an investors’ conference, while Soon-Shiong issued editorial directives after a headline he found objectionable.

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