Letter to the editor: AP's bias showing on Jan. 6 reporting

The article “Intel shows extremists to attend Capitol rally” (Sept. 2, TribLIVE) shows just how biased and left-wing the Associated Press has become.

The article consistently uses the terms “extremists” and even “pro-Trump rioters” even though this so-called news organization must know that the vast majority of protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 were peaceful, and I’m assuming has no evidence that extremism will be used at an upcoming rally to protest the treatment of some of the people arrested in connection with that day.

That treatment by the politicized and over-zealous Department of Justice includes indicting citizens who never stepped foot into the Capitol and detaining others deemed to be “dangerous” without bail for months, to name some of their unfair and unconstitutional acts. It is clear that the DOJ is being used as a weapon to squelch political opposition.

Compare this with the laissez-faire attitude of federal law enforcement and intel agencies and the left-wing media concerning BLM and antifa extremists rioting, looting, committing arson and causing billions of dollars in damage, as well as the deaths of nearly two dozen people and injuries to possibly thousands, including many law enforcement, during the George Floyd protests.

This is why I cannot subscribe to any newspaper that uses the AP and urge all readers to automatically discount stories from this unscrupulous news source.

A.J. Abate

Elizabeth