Press didn't cover Obama's misstatements

It was with great interest that I read the self-serving editorial on freedom of the press and Trumps attack on the media for being fake news. The plan to have so many papers print the opinion certainly got a lot of people talking about it today.

I wonder though, where was the press during the eight years of the Obama administration? Very little coverage of the misstatements during those eight years including such topics as the lies told during the passage of Obama's ACA, Lois Lerner and the entire IRS scandal, the horror in Benghazi (Obama's explanation was "a bump in the road"), Fast and Furious, Loretta Lynch on the tarmac … you get the picture.

During the Obama years, there was little to no reporting on the negative downside of each of those events. Yet you found only praise and positive reports about Obama for his entire eight years.

Now I find the vast majority of stories about Trump in the news are negative. No mention of a greatly improved economy, lower taxes, lowest unemployment in years and a strong mix of conservative judges in contrast to all of the liberal district courts.

I agree that Mr. Trump often speaks when I wish he wouldn't and uses phrases that I wish he wouldn't, but he is getting a lot accomplished.

I admit to being a "news junkie" but pride myself on getting stories each day from NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News and The Daily Herald. Interesting how the same story is altered with so much spin.

I wonder who is still reading and/or listening. I fear fewer and fewer are paying attention or finding the truth.

Diane Eden

St. Charles