To the editor: It might not be honest to single out Fox Information as a cause to mistrust the media and journalism. (“Trump’s election says a lot about trust in journalism,” Opinion, Nov. 12)
For too lengthy, NBC has flown underneath the blame radar for creating the Frankenstein monster that’s the story of Donald Trump. By manufacturing his picture as a actuality present star (what an oxymoron the time period “actuality present” is!), that company media group laid the groundwork for the general public to just accept him and his lies and elect him president twice.
The latest apology to America in U.S. News and World Report by former NBC advertising govt John D. Miller for selling Trump because the star of “The Apprentice” might assuage his guilt, nevertheless it fails to undo the harm we have already got and can proceed to endure.
NBC ought to save its soul by airing goal specials reminding the general public of the truth of Trump. It also needs to admit its personal complicity in creating the situations for him to rise to political energy, earlier than it’s too late.
Daniel Harrison, Chula Vista
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To the editor: No subject is extra consequential and damaging to our democratic republic than our lack of belief in journalism.
As one American who ended my L.A. Occasions subscription a few years in the past resulting from its failure to separate the information from opinion, I’m hopeful that eventual modifications at this newspaper will trigger me to need to renew my subscription.
I’m not alone: Readers don’t want lecturing and persuasion masquerading as information. Precise information ought to reside within the information sections, reported by precise journalists; opinions ought to reside within the opinion part, penned by opinion leaders.
Joel L. Strom, Los Angeles
