Editing biases show in news service stories

Jim Slusher’s Jan. 25 column is like the pot calling the kettle black.

His assertion that the paper’s editors comb Associated Press and other newsfeeds for inherent bias and edit them according to an objectivity standard could not be further from the truth. It is probably true, because it is true that their supposed standard is likely the Herald’s own. We readers observe their “combed” newsfeed articles still containing loaded word usage and phraseology raising an important question. What bias do Daily Herald editors have? What else are we to conclude?

Adding insult to injury Slusher directs his ire in three paragraphs trying to make the case that voters in the Republican Party are possibly being short changed. Curiously, missing is any similar criticism of Democrat efforts to marginalize democracy on their watch by limiting other Democrat contenders besides President Biden.

Yet, if the Herald is to be fair and balanced they’d address the Democratic efforts in Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida to limit time-honored democracy for Democratic voter participation, as Biden is the only candidate in those states. That’s not to mention New Hampshire, where Biden operatives declined to officially participate, throwing all their eggs into South Carolina.

I ask, what type of narrative and sympathies is the Herald trying to promote? The Herald’s tendency to have to repeatedly explain itself to its readers does not bode well for their journalistic approach.

William Anderson

Schaumburg