WATCH: LA Times Columnist Throws Tantrum Over Paper’s Efforts To Reduce Bias, Quits

Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and assistant U.S. attorney general who currently comments on legal matters from a left-wing perspective, abruptly resigned from the Los Angeles Times after the publication’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, announced sweeping reforms to the outlet’s newsroom and editorial board in an effort to cut down on bias.

Soon-Shiong, the biotech billionaire who acquired the Times in 2018, generated outrage on the left when the paper refused to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid earlier this year. He is also making major changes to the paper’s editorial board by bringing in new conservative voices, including popular CNN commentator Scott Jennings.

He also recently announced plans to institute an AI-powered “bias meter” alongside news stories so that readers can understand both sides of any given story.

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“Somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias,” he said during an appearance on Jennings’ “Flyover Country,” podcast. “And what we need to do is not have what we call confirmation bias and then that story automatically, the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story and then give comments.”

Soon-Shiong went on to state that media outlets have failed to adequately separate news from opinion and political ideology, something he suggested “could be the downfall of what now people call mainstream media.”

Soon-Shiong speaks at a conference in the U.K.

The newspaper owner’s reforms have not gone over well with everyone, including senior legal affairs columnist Harry Litman, who announced his resignation after his boss announced plans for the bias meter.

Litman — a fervent supporter of politically-motivated prosecutions against President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters — lashed out against his former boss for “capitulating” to Trump and the “threats” he poses to “democracy” during a tantrum on MSNBC.

“I think they cowered and are worried about their personal holdings and just being threatened by Trump. And that’s a really shameful capitulation, I think. So, I just felt I couldn’t be a part of it and had to resign,” Litman ranted this past Thursday.

When asked why he opted to resign by MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Litman stated that newspapers have an “important role” to play when it comes to obstructing the Trump Administration’s agenda and defending government agencies that have been weaponized against conservatives.

“Papers have such an important role to play now and in this country. Trump has captured the political arena, maybe the Supreme Court, and he’s going after now the FBI, potentially the military, and, really, they’re one of the few institutions to be able to stand up and push back,” he said.

“And it’s in their finest tradition, and Trump has made clear he’ll go after them. And that’s an, you know, absolute five-alarm fire,” he added.

Litman, who was appointed during the Clinton Administration, previously explained that he had written his last column for the Times in a Substack article. “I don’t want to continue to work for a paper that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on democratic rule for craven reasons,” the former U.S. attorney wrote.

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