Letter to the editor: McCarthy coverage not balanced

In your 15-paragraph article covering Kevin McCarthy’s speech in Monongahela (“Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, others visit Monongahela to unveil House GOP’s midterm agenda,” Sept. 23, TribLIVE), five paragraphs concerned former President Trump and five paragraphs were devoted to President Biden, leaving 5 paragraphs to McCarthy’s message. Is this what the Associated Press and the Tribune- Review call balanced reporting?

The lede did reference the “Commitment to America” that would include “proposals on energy, security and end to liberal social policies,” but the only concrete example given in the story was McCarthy’s promise to attempt a repeal of the new funding for extra IRS employees. Most of the story concerned the location of the speech, the “wide cross-section of lawmakers” present (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene named), and that the commitment was “slim enough to put on a ‘pocket card.’ ” More reporting focused on the struggles and uneasy coalition of the Republican Party, failures of the party and a litany of Republican speakers who were “forced from office,” which we know as the normal turnover when the other party gains a majority. Nancy Pelosi has been forced from office, too.

The continuation at the bottom of this front-page story directs the reader to go to GOP on page A8. On that page, we find the title beginning with the word “Biden.”

Diana Fredley

West Deer