Letter: Newspaper's 'integrity' often missing in reports

Thursday's opinion piece by Jim Slusher, managing editor for opinion, contains the following statement: "Most of us consider it a matter of integrity not to mindlessly repeat as viable, claims we know to be patently false..." And yet, for two years, how many stories has the Daily Herald run about the now wholly disproven "Russian Collusion" hoax? Where was the DH's "integrity" then?

In the same edition that Mr. Slusher made his high-minded claim of "integrity," the Herald also ran the front page headline: "Scope of Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law expanded."

The Daily Herald knows, or ought to know, that that phrase is nowhere in the law, is not implied in the law and is only an attempt buy Democrats to demonize Florida Republicans. So why did the Daily Herald "mindlessly repeat" something that it knows to be "patently false"?

I'd like to believe My Slusher and his claims, but I think I'll wait until I see them being put into action on the pages of the Daily Herald. In the meantime, the Daily Herald looks like every other mainstream media outlet to me and that's not a good thing.

Thomas Gavin

Naperville