Fraught with pitfalls

I would never begin to tell someone how to run their business. I have just noticed over the years and, of course more recently, that the Sun Sentinel is becoming more and more partisan. I think reporting on politics and politicians is a must, but fraught with dangerous pitfalls. It’s certainly good to bring the reader all the current facts and other people’s opinions on the issues at hand.

Your newspaper, however, must be careful when it decides to go all in for a candidate or party. Readers appreciate being kept up to date with what’s going on in the local and national elections but perhaps you should stop short of outright endorsements or blatant condemnations of individual candidates. From a business point of view, I wouldn’t want to alienate half my circulation.

I tell my friends and family I wish we still had Walter Cronkite giving us the news. He told us how it was. He didn’t tell us how to think.

Charles Auchinleck, Boca Raton