Mainstream media have repeatedly struggled and often failed abysmally in their efforts to provide journalistically neutral, ‘balanced’ and ‘fair’ coverage of DJT and his MAGA party. I am greatly encouraged by the stance that the Cleveland Plain Dealer and its editor Chris Quinn have now taken in a recent letter to their readers www.cleveland.com/...
“The North Star here is the truth. We tell the truth, even when it offends some of the people who pay us for information.”
The truth is that Donald Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power. No president in our history has done worse.This is not subjective. We all saw it.
The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. People who say the earth is flat don’t get space on our platforms. If that offends them, so be it.
I am even more encouraged by the number of other news organizations that have responded to Mr. Quinn’s letter by republishing and favorably commenting on it. www.huffpost.com/… www.esquire.com/… www.democraticunderground.com/… www.msnbc.com/…
I urge readers here to do the same.
I take a small measure of pride in Mr. Quinn’s stance, because my grandfather and namesake was the chief editorial writer at the Cleveland Plain Dealer back in the 1930s and 40s. My family survived the Great Depression in part because the PD continued to employ journalists during a difficult period and because readers continued to support the paper during those troubled times.