Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong spoke with actor Rob Schneider and the wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., actor Cheryl Hines, last month to discuss creating a talk show to compete with ABC's "The View," reported the Status.
Soon-Shiong, the physician and entrepreneur who has shaken up the Times since he purchased it in 2018, has irritated staffers with some of his moves.
In October, he stopped the newspaper's expected endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
He also reportedly "required" the editorial board to email him "the text of every editorial and the name of its writer" ahead of publication and revealed in December that he had been working "behind the scenes" to create a "bias meter" for every article published by the Times.
In November, he vowed to even out what he called the paper's left-leaning political slant.
"If we were honest with ourselves, our current board of opinion writers veered very left, which is fine, but I think in order to have balance, you also need to have somebody who would trend right, and more importantly, somebody that would trend in the middle," he said at the time.
Status reported that Schneider pitched the idea of creating an all-women talk show that would be the "opposite" of "The View," known for its political commentary.
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