UPDATED: Los Angeles Occasions proprietor Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong has launched a press release about why he appeared on Ask Dr. Drew: “I used to be invited, and it’s one of many few reveals that enables for a long-form dialog, offering the chance to debate complicated points in depth fairly than relying sound bites.” He didn’t deal with the way in which he reacted to feedback by Drew Pinsky about Occasions reporter Jaclyn Cosgrove.
PREVIOUS: Los Angeles Occasions proprietor Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong is as soon as once more in sizzling 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’ lined 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 referred to as their protection of him “disgusting.”
Quickly-Shiong appeared to chortle off his feedback about Cosgrove, who makes use of they/them pronouns, and stated this in response, “I feel you’re proper. , the unfairness of …and that was presupposed to be a information report fairly than opinion … and that’s what I additionally assume is fallacious about media right here. You need to be truthful. And that’s all you ask, proper? Honest 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’ll be able to see from the tales.”
“Following their publication, Pinsky and podcast host Adam Carolla repeatedly attacked Cosgrove on Carolla’s present. Carolla referred to as Cosgrove a “fucking coward” and the 2 launched varied different insults at Cosgrove. The assaults led to a barrage of harassment from Pinsky’s followers. As Cosgrove defined in an electronic mail to the corporate on the time: “I’ve been referred to 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 stated he ‘had been ready for this for a very long time’ and once more named Cosgrove. He stated falsely that Cosgrove by no means referred to as him for remark. He referred to as the reporting ‘disgusting’ and stated he had referred to as Cosgrove and informed them to ‘do your rattling job.’”
The unit council’s letter went on to say that “Pinsky’s false feedback, and your obvious help 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 help for Cosgrove, who was doing their job as a journalist for the Los Angeles Occasions. The proprietor of the Los Angeles Occasions mustn’t help – 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 printed a narrative about his nomination to the Los Angeles Homeless Providers Authority in 2021 with out calling him or asking him any questions, and steered that the reporting was not truthful. That isn’t correct. The Occasions did interview him for the story, and he was quoted extensively within the printed article. We encourage anybody who is anxious concerning the equity of the story to learn it themself.”
Yow 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 stop — after Quickly-Shiong knowledgeable his editorial board that the Occasions could be making no endorsement within the presidential race. The Occasions had endorsed a candidate in every cycle since 2008 and, in response to CJR, was planning to endorse Kamala Harris till the proprietor nixed the follow.
Quickly-Shiong referenced that call throughout Pinsky’s podcast on Tuesday. “I imply the choices we made in regard to the non-endorsement on Kamala, no one’s referred to as me on that however made assumptions and you then make assumptions and you then make opinions primarily based in your assumptions, and you then simply hold them going. And you then name that information … We’ve received to cease that.”