Los Angeles Occasions proprietor Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong is as soon as once more in scorching water together with his newsroom after he appeared on Dr. Drew Pinsky’s podcast and didn’t defend the previous work of considered one of his reporters.
Throughout a 90-minute dialogue Tuesday that encompassed Mayor Karen Bass, the wildfires and their mutual admiration for RFK Jr’s nomination for Well being Secretary, Pinsky introduced up on Ask Dr. Drew how the Occasions’ coated his 2021 nomination to the fee that oversees L.A.’s Homeless Providers Authority. Pinsky claimed that Occasions reporter Jaclyn Cosgrove by no means contacted him on the time, and known as their protection of him “disgusting.”
Quickly-Shiong appeared to chortle off his feedback about Cosgrove, who makes use of they/them pronouns, and mentioned this in response, “I believe you’re proper. You realize, the unfairness of …and that was imagined to be a information report slightly than opinion … and that’s what I additionally assume is mistaken about media right here. It’s important to be honest. And that’s all you ask, proper? Truthful and trustworthy. And to name you on a few of these issues.”
Pinsky’s feedback about Cosgrove and the “horrible article” start at 28:56.
On Wednesday, members of the L.A. Occasions Guild Unit Council despatched this letter to Quickly-Shiong.
“In 2021 our colleague Jaclyn Cosgrove was tasked with writing articles concerning the nomination of Dr. Drew Pinsky to the fee that oversees the Los Angeles Homeless Providers Authority. These articles quoted Pinsky extensively, as you possibly can see from the tales.”
“Following their publication, Pinsky and podcast host Adam Carolla repeatedly attacked Cosgrove on Carolla’s present. Carolla known as Cosgrove a “fucking coward” and the 2 launched numerous different insults at Cosgrove. The assaults led to a barrage of harassment from Pinsky’s followers. As Cosgrove defined in an e mail to the corporate on the time: “I’ve been known as a bitch, a coward, a liar, a hen shit, a liar and … I’m most likely forgetting some. Cosgrove reported the harassment to a number of folks on the firm together with Jeff Glasser, Shelby Grad, John Canalis and HR.”
“Yesterday, you went on Pinsky’s present, Ask Dr. Drew, and Pinsky once more raised the articles. He mentioned he ‘had been ready for this for a very long time’ and once more named Cosgrove. He mentioned falsely that Cosgrove by no means known as him for remark. He known as the reporting ‘disgusting’ and mentioned he had known as Cosgrove and instructed them to ‘do your rattling job.’”
The unit council’s letter went on to say that “Pinsky’s false feedback, and your obvious assist for them, invite additional harassment of our colleague … We’re asking for a public assertion making it clear that Pinsky’s feedback had been false and for the corporate to supply its assist for Cosgrove, who was doing their job as a journalist for the Los Angeles Occasions. The proprietor of the Los Angeles Occasions shouldn’t assist – or hold quiet throughout – unfair assaults on his personal worker.”
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Occasions additionally launched this to Deadline: “On his present Ask Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew Pinsky asserted that the Los Angeles Occasions had revealed a narrative about his nomination to the Los Angeles Homeless Providers Authority in 2021 with out calling him or asking him any questions, and prompt that the reporting was not honest. That’s not correct. The Occasions did interview him for the story, and he was quoted extensively within the revealed article. We encourage anybody who is worried concerning the equity of the story to learn it themself.”
You will discover the unique Cosgrove article that was titled “Dr. Drew eyed for homeless fee, angering advocates who surprise: Is that this a joke” right here. The spokesman additionally forwarded Deadline’s request for remark to Quickly-Shiong and we’ll replace this story if and after we hear from him.
In October, the paper made nationwide information — whereas a few of its personal staffers give up — after Quickly-Shiong knowledgeable his editorial board that the Time could be making no endorsement within the presidential race. The Occasions had endorsed a candidate in every cycle since 2008 and, based on CJR, was planning to endorse Kamala Harris till the proprietor nixed the apply.
Quickly-Shiong referenced that call throughout Pinsky’s podcast on Tuesday. “I imply the selections we made in regard to the non-endorsement on Kamala, no person’s known as me on that however made assumptions and then you definitely make assumptions and then you definitely make opinions primarily based in your assumptions, and then you definitely simply hold them going. And then you definitely name that information … We’ve obtained to cease that.”
