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I read nearly a million letters from Californians. What it taught me about the state of truth and objectivity

I read nearly a million letters from Californians. What it taught me about the state of truth and objectivity

Over the past two decades, I read close to a million letters written by Californians. I’m no celebrity — just a mid-level editor at a struggling newspaper.

At least I used to be. Last month I was among the few dozen staff members at the Los Angeles Times who took a buyout and left while its owner, billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, aggressively diminishes the newspaper’s Opinion section, where I worked for almost 20 years....

Click here to read the rest of Paul Thornton's op-ed article in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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