Coverage of Trump rarely balanced

“The Los Angeles Times editorial board does not speak for the New York Times or for the Boston Globe or the Chicago Tribune or the Denver Post. We share certain opinions with those newspapers; we disagree on other things. Even when we do agree with another editorial page — on the death penalty or climate change or war in Afghanistan, say — we reach our own decisions and positions after careful consultation and deliberation among ourselves, and then we write our own editorials. We would not want to leave the impression that we take our lead from others, or that we engage in groupthink.” LA Times, 8/16/18

Herein lies the problem with the media: the editorial boards of various newspapers, magazines, etc., get together to decide the news of the day and what to present and how to present it. For years, newspapers across our country have printed the “news” but if you read (the) same article in the El Paso Times, the New York Times, or the Denver Post you may read a noticeably different length of the article, the direction of the article — positive or negative — depending on the liberal or conservative leaning of the paper itself.

I realize that “editorials” are opinion pieces. However, it seems that many news items are presented from a particular “leaning” rather than as a presentation of the facts. It seems to me that many in media today lean to the left and present their “news” from that position particularly when it comes to President Trump. This is overwhelmingly negative coverage and regardless of the whole picture of a particular action the president takes, it is rarely ever balanced to reflect the positive and negative effects of that action.

And contrary to what the Albuquerque Journal prints, there are many people ... who agree with the direction the country is going in under this president. And who agree that until the media once again does its job to present the facts and let (its) audience decide how to think about those facts, (its) reported “news” will be under scrutiny.

I do not believe the media is the Enemy of the People, but I do not believe they are unbiased journalists who protect free speech either.

CATHY LOVATO Edgewood