Objectivity questioned
Dear editor:
Have you ever seen a parade of boats? Ever even heard of one? There actually was one this past Sunday on our local lake. I was told there were around a hundred participants. Amazing, right? You’d think that would have warranted a news story, right? Nope. Nothing. Zip. Nada. Might that have been because it was organized and greatly represented by people in support of our elected president? Yes, he was elected (please, acknowledge that) in spite of the media’s vain attempt to hand the election to Hillary. (You should honestly acknowledge that, too.)
This paper prints a Statement of Core Values every day. Every day. In it, the word impartiality is used four times. The publisher is quoted: “To give the news impartially, without fear or favor.” He continues: “Impartiality means reporting, editing, and delivering the news honestly, fairly, objectively, and without personal opinion or bias.”
Now if the boat parade had ever been in support of Obama, or Hillary, or even for Biden, do you think there would have been a front-page story, with pictures? I’ll give you three guesses, and the first two don’t count.
So where is the impartiality, the objectivity … without personal opinion or bias as stated in the Core Values?
No media wants censorship in any form. Yet the U.S. media already practices censorship. Want an example? The very blatant omission of the boat parade is exactly that. Every nation in the world is aware of how the majority of the U.S. media portrays our elected president. They literally hate him, right? Their censorship is practiced every day in those portrayals. There is no fairness, no objectivity. Only personal opinion and bias.
If your local paper isn’t going to ascribe to their own publisher’s statement of values, and practices their own form of censorship, you must ask yourself how much other news events are you not being told about? How much other news is being ignored or slanted? We aren’t being informed, we are being Influenced. Think about that. Seriously. And don’t be silent about it. You are being charged for what you get. Is it what you’ve paid for?
The Record wasn’t the only one at fault here: so was the state’s flagship paper. To be expected by a paper named the named the Democrat, right? Oops. Freudian slip. Mike Jared Hot Springs