Schmidt did not refute tax claims

A newspaper's biases are too often revealed in headlines that misrepresent the content of the article. This is almost universally true of the Daily Herald's coverage of Lake County Board President Suzi Schmidt.

Saturday's headline claims she "refutes" a claim that she is misrepresenting local tax rates in her race for state senate. Either the headline was intended to misrepresent the story, or the editors of the Daily Herald are unclear of the definition of the word "refute." Refute does not mean half-baked, vague, political doublespeak intended to cover one's misrepresentations, which is what Schmidt provided in the article; it means to prove something to be wrong, which Schmidt clearly did not.

It's an interesting and revealing situation when a newspaper misrepresents the facts in a headline about a pet politician misrepresenting facts. Sadly, we've come to expect nothing more from Schmidt or the Daily Herald.

Robert Flanary

Grayslake