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Letter: Scrutinize news stories

By Carol Bleth, Vancouver
Published: January 5, 2021, 6:00am

Please become critical readers and listeners of news stories. The Associated Press, for example, is our main source of national and international news, but the articles can be very biased. Nonessential adjectives to give disapproval or distrust to actions by Trump or Biden should be eliminated. They are the writer’s own beliefs. Perhaps at one time news articles were strict interpretations of events, but that day has long passed. I don’t believe straightforward reporting sells any more.

Editorialists, cartoons, and AP articles mock President Trump like no other president, and that appears to be the only acceptable standard applied to him. Why is that?

I am also worried about the lack of questions asked of Biden throughout his campaign. He has not been asked difficult questions by the media, and he still isn’t. Scrutinize the language used to describe Biden compared to Trump. Plenty of positives there.

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