Letter to the editor: Biased press

Seeking the truth (a lost virtue) should always be job No. 1 of any in a free press. But too often the truth gets slanted to fit an agenda.

Case in point: In November, a march in Washington of pro-Israeli supporters had an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people in attendance, with zero violence, zero arrests, zero police officers injured. Contrast that with the pro-Gaza, pro-Palestinian march, with a fraction of the total number attending but much violence, many arrests and multiple police officers injured.

That’s what my eyes saw. My eyes do not lie. Yet certain news outlets slanted the truth, made excuses for the violence or tried to justify the violence.

All tribes have their good and their evil. But to slant the truth for an agenda makes those who do it complicit to a lie. We all have the right of free speech; none of us has the right to violence.

Anthony Yates

Wilkins