Letter to the editor: Press must help us meet in middle
A Distinction. — We hold that whenever a publication confines the bulk of its views to any particular line of thought, class of views, or side of a mooted question, it becomes to that extent a class publication, and inasmuch ceases to be a newspaper.
After living in the Greensburg area all my life, this registered Democrat who exercises, not mails, his right to vote, former union member, supporter of the oppressed, religious freedom, law enforcement, educational ethics and the Bill of Rights, and a daily subscriber and reader of every possible issue of the Tribune-Review for the past 25-plus years, I anticipated my first letter to the editor would be one noting it’s marked deterioration and canceling my subscription.
The insufferable onslaught of letters from one extreme to the other has been escalated from all sides and exacerbated by the press. Sourced almost entirely from the AP, Bloomberg, LA Times, etc. news services and no doubt subsidized by some lobby or vested interest, entire pages of the Trib are direct opinion pieces that begin as journalism if you will, and at the last, refer back to the current admin or POTUS as the singular problem.
The press must help us meet in the middle. They are not. I have more to say but am at 200 words. I’ll hold my faith, vote for law and order, and keep reading.
Steven J. Truxal Sr.
Southwest Greensburg
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