Media not qualified to give opinions

Perpetuating the Trump-Russian collusion story while burying the Hunter Biden laptop story are to National Public Radio as falling doors and tires are to Boeing.

In an April 9 essay for The Free Press, former NPR Senior Editor Uri Berliner reported that NPR went after “Russiagate” and “turned a blind eye” to the Hunter Biden laptop story because they didn’t like former President Donald Trump. He found that all 87 editors in NPR’s D.C. newsroom were registered Democrats.

When I asked my college classmates why they were majoring in journalism the answer was always “to change the world.” It was never “to report the news fairly and accurately.”

Journalists feel a greater sense of purpose by interjecting their opinion into a news story. The problem is, without taking macroeconomics you don’t have the foundation to form an educated opinion on how the world should be changed.

If I hadn’t taken courses in macroeconomics, I might think that the profit motive is evil, that people are poor because others are rich and that socialism is the only cure. It’s painful to watch a panel of journalists with zero combined credits in economics talking about what’s best for the economy.

Ben Furleigh, Port Charlotte