Letter: Weaponized journalism is everywhere

Posted 2/6/25

To the editor:

By now every American knows or should know about the freedoms and rights we as Americans have. Sadly, what we don't have aynmore is honest journalism. That is unbiased facts …

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Letter: Weaponized journalism is everywhere

Posted

To the editor:

By now every American knows or should know about the freedoms and rights we as Americans have.
Sadly, what we don't have aynmore is honest journalism. That is unbiased facts without commentary.
What we have in its place is “weaponized" journalism. That is biased information that has been deliberately slanted for a predetermined effect.
These writers, I wouldn't call then journalists, are not stupid. They have been educated in the finest colleges and universities in America. They know how to use adjectives and adverbs to change commentary from a right to left wing view. It is so deceiving that the reader doesn't know he or she is being manipulated.
You know what news venues are using this ploy. There is nothing you can do about it except to stop viewing their propaganda. Ratings are their life's blood.

Ronald Pansa
Clipper Way

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