Paper leaves voice of the right wing unchecked

I saw your editorial about fake news, and the irony dripped from it so strongly it pulled the characters out of shape.

It hits me in two ways. During the recent campaign the Daily Herald breathlessly printed every story about every rumor regarding Secretary Clinton that it could find, front page or overleaf. However, most stories about Trump's aberrations, course reversals, insults and rants indenting violence ended up on Page 9, buried under a softball headline. That was fake news. Own it.

And on the same page as that editorial, only inches away, was a letter, uncommented, pushing the totally discredited Laffer curve idea (government income rising after a tax decrease) - ask Kansas about that.

Any reader who wants to keep up with the latest nut-job conspiracy theories need look no further than the Daily Herald letters to the editor section.

It's all there: climate change denial; incorrect statistics on black violence; lies about LGBT issues; incorrect assertions about immigrant crime - not to mention incorrect assertions regarding crime trends, unemployment rates, the national debt, voter fraud rates (while ignoring voter suppression and gerrymandering impacts).

It's all there for your reading pleasure with no disclaimers. And the more factually incorrect the claims, the more space they seem to get.

It's time you start practicing what your editorial admonishes others to do.

Mark Muehlhausen

Schaumburg