The Los Angeles Times is reporting an extraordinary story in which the union representing LA police officers is pressuring the owner of San Diego's biggest newspaper to change the paper's editorial line or to fire the journalists responsible for its opinion pages.
The San Diego Union-Tribune has been running some editorial comments calling for cut backs in public spending which has angered the police officers union. The paper is owned by Platinum Equity, a private firm which relies on a $30-million investment from the pension fund of Los Angeles police officers and firefighters, and other public-employee pension schemes.
Los Angeles Police Protective League President Paul M. Weber has written to the boss of Platinum claiming: "Since the very public employees they continually criticize are now their owners, we strongly believe that those who currently run the editorial pages should be replaced."
Newspapers in the UK have had some strange owners but never the police force.
Story tip George Dearsley
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