Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong
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first heard Nov 2024
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Well, the good news is they are now truly investigating. As early as this morning, I had a conversation with the executive editor and investigating all these issues, not only these issues, but the people involved with actually managing these issues. And that's coming out. And so that's the role of the paper. The papers will hold people accountable. And I think they're going to do that.
Well, that's exactly when you talk about operational skill sets or running a real-world operation. And unfortunately, I think that's the problem with the politicians that now run the country is when I talk about competence matters. I think that's what really got a lot of views. I mean, something's common sense, like how about hiring people that are competent?
Not left, not right, but just competent.
Well, I don't think Gavin Newsom's happy with me either, right? So, you know, I've called him out and he and I text on several issues that I call him out directly. You know, whatever I say out publicly, I say to them directly. So both Karen and Gavin Newsom. So, because I don't believe in, you know, voicing my concerns publicly without having and voicing them privately, which I do.
So no, I think, look, we really do have concerns. And you're right. People then call me. I'm not sure. At one point, I'm racist. Next point, I'm left. Next point, I'm right. It'd be really hard for somebody of Chinese origin, born in South Africa under apartheid.
No, I think, look, to be honest, I was always sort of, when I was in South Africa as a student, you know, I was so sort of that they basically put me in prison because I was stopped and they asked me, where's my ID card, you know, the policeman, and my response, where's yours? You didn't take on that too well.
So, yeah, the question of being able to take on power and speaking truth to power is inherent there. What has changed in my mind is this level of incompetence is now very dangerous, actually. And as you talk about, for example, you talk about the mental health. Look, I walked down Skid Row in LA, understood what you saw. I tried to take over the poorest hospitals in Los Angeles, St.
Vincent's and Francis Hospital in the poorest areas of the city. There are solutions, real solutions for these mental health patients. But not only absence of action, but a waste of funds. I just tweeted the other day about bullet train, right? How do we spend $13 billion without a single track being laid? And why do we even need it? So it's like, where?
And, you know, so, you know, people are going nuts with this doge. But it's the right question to ask. Where's this money going?
Well, look, you know, when I bought the paper, I literally had no idea how a paper runs. I didn't even know what these rules were. You know, there's op-ed, opinion column, news reporter. You don't cross over from one side to the other side. And I asked people, show me the rule book, I think. Who wrote these rules? But okay. And I had normal Stein for about two years. And then COVID hit.
We had hired Kevin Merida. And unfortunately, I had no time then for the paper and let Kevin manage the organization as we hired. And with post-COVID and with the approval of our drug, I finally had some time to pay some attention. We're deep into the election between President Biden and President Trump and then Kamala Harris and Trump. And the time of endorsements was coming.
And this was October and I began to ask about how we're going about this. And I realized, just as you said, Have we become an echo chamber? And I just had to take some actions. And we didn't endorse Kamala Harrison. For that, I suppose, I became another racist.
Yeah, and it's even more difficult because of the unionization of it, you know. But I think now they're beginning to understand, you know, how papers have all now gone under. And we've supported this paper, and we'll continue, and I want to make it clear. I think this is too important, because I think there needs to be a voice for the public.
And so we'll continue to support it, but we have to change, and we have to increase engagement.
I'm going to break some news for you now then. So when I bought the paper, I saw we were approached by Washington Post that had this software that they do called Arc. And I looked at the paper software called WordPress. And I come from healthcare where the medical records is such a mess. And I said, this is as much a mess as the records.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the risk and build a content management system that's completely unique, that could integrate video, podcast, movies, streaming, paper, press, magazines.
and we've built that school graphene and in about two weeks you will see we will release openly release live streaming early time studio studio press comments and what a perspective meter meaning you'll read an opinion which will now be called voices and when you see that that article you can hit the button as perspectives it'll give you the perspective of where that article is written.
Not the person, but the way the article is written. It's either center, left, or right. And then it'll give you right immediately other perspectives, the opposite perspectives, opposing perspectives. But each of these perspectives that will come up will be linked to actual perspectives
uh links of data that you can go review so my view is always you allowed to have an opinion everybody's allowed to have an opinion but at least you should have opinion based on facts that would be sort of nice now you could have a list of right opinion um and so one way for me to help engage a diverse audience and california is moving between right and left and you know when we
100 years ago, it was more center right, and now it's more center left. So we could create a system that everybody could participate in that article and read on it. To me, that would be sort of a revolution. And we're going about to launch that in about two weeks.
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