Opinion

On news credibility

Posted August 23, 2023 1:00 am

In a recent letter, Andrew M Weiss asked "Does anyone reading ... any mainstream media source realize there are congressional hearings going on that are looking into alleged corruption in the Biden family?" The answer is yes, virtually every "mainstream" media source has reported on Hunter Biden investigations for years.

Next, Mr. Weiss suggested going to Newsmax, The Epoch Times, and Hannity for news. All of these sources are rated "low credibility" and extreme right in their bias by the Media Bias/Factcheck website. And yes, the website does rate the far-left sites as low credibility also.

Just because you may not like the news being reported does not mean that it is not true. Regarding the political opinions around news media since Trump kidnapped the Republican Party, I think Stephen Colbert summed it up best when he said "It is a well-known fact that reality has a liberal bias."

You cannot expect every news story to be evenly critical of two sides of an issue when only one side can be shown to be factually true.

Gerry McGovern

Naperville

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