Newspaper’s bias is showing

Every so often, the Daily Herald runs a commentary declaring how unbiased you are. I find those amusing because usually in the same day’s paper is an example of your liberal bent. Your local stories lean left on politics and you choose to carry AP and WAPO stories for statewide, national and international content. No one with a fair mind can claim either writes stories without a leftist bias.

On Wednesday, Dec. 18, you ran a humdinger by Lisa Mascaro entitled “House GOP goes after Liz Cheney.” The actual news content of the story is that the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight accused Ms. Cheney of colluding with Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who became the committee’s star witness. That’s the way even liberal lights like the New York Times reported it.

That’s a big story. A former vice-chair of a House committee is accused of rigging sworn testimony to her own committee. Shouldn’t that have been the main thrust of the story? Shouldn’t that accusation at least have been mentioned in the story?

Is that what Daily Herald readers would understand from the AP article that you chose to run? No. What they would understand is that the GOP, not a House committee, decided to recommend prosecution. The accusation of collusion wasn’t mentioned in the first graph or, indeed, any of the 10 following paragraphs. What was “reported” in those graphs was a liberal rant that the Republican Party is working with Trump to “punish his perceived enemies.” Further that Trump’s executive branch appointments are “like-minded in his efforts at retribution.”

The story continues, with more diversions from what any news organization would consider newsworthy, to Ms. Cheney’s own response to the report. If the DH is your sole news source, you remain in the dark about what she’s actually accused of.

Thomas Gavin

Naperville