[NYPOST] Staffers at the Los Angeles Times say the newspaper's billionaire owner is demanding that the editorial board ''take a break from writing about'' President-elect Donald Trump
 ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets...
, according to a report.
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the physician and entrepreneur who bought the Times in 2018, has rankled staffers at the paper with his ''meddling'' in editorial matters, which has become ''more pervasive than previously realized,'' media news hound Oliver Darcy writes in his Status newsletter.
The South Africa-born Soon-Shiong is reported to have taken ''a number of previously unreported steps'' designed to rein in Trump-related commentary.
Last week, the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported that Soon-Shiong blocked his newspaper from publishing an editorial that argued the Senate should follow its traditional process for confirming cabinet picks rather than allow Trump to make recess appointments.
The editorial, which bore the headline ''Donald Trump's cabinet choices are not normal. The Senate's confirmation process should be,'' did not run, according to the New York Times.
But Soon-Shiong's hands-on involvement in the editorial decisions of his newspaper has been ''much broader in scope'' than spiking the op-ed, according to Status. 
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