Letter to the editor: Biased reporting on debate

Why wasn’t the Associated Press story “Trump, Biden clash over economy, immigration, Jan. 6” (June 28) placed on the editorial page instead of the front page?

Editorial opinion ran rampant through this article, leading off with “Joe Biden repeatedly sought to confront Donald Trump … as his Republican rival countered Biden’s criticism by leaning into falsehoods about the economy, illegal immigration and his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.”

This bias runs true with all the AP articles that report on issues regarding the standing claims made by the rival, more conservative, party members and leaders. “False claims,” “unsupported claims” and now deemed blatant “falsehoods”! These editorial comments, in supposedly unbiased news reports, seem to be reserved for only conservative claims while their more liberal rivals seem to be permitted to state their claims without such judgmental comments attached.

I have come to read all such AP stories with a jaundiced eye, since they so clearly violate the standards of honest, factual, unbiased journalism.

Trish Lindsay

South Buffalo Township