Letters (Westmoreland)

Letter to the editor: Truth in headlines

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By Tribune-Review
1 Min Read Feb. 19, 2020 | 6 years Ago
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I was saddened to see your Feb. 7 print headline “Trump takes aim at ‘scum’.” Quoting people in headlines is what the tabloids do to convey misinformation. Why not put the truth in the headline and then quote President Trump’s words in the body of the article?

The article was filled with name-calling, using words like crooked, sleaze bags, dirty cops, without any commentary on the vulgar discourse. Why publish such a mean-spirited, divisive article?

Maybe in the future you will write an article about the people who upheld the law by honoring subpoenas to testify before Congress concerning the Ukraine scandal, some of whom were subsequently fired by Trump or chose to resign rather than face the president’s vindictiveness and cruelty. One person was fired simply because he was the brother of someone who did testify, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a decorated war hero, whose family fled Russia for the freedom of the U.S.

Vindman’s crime was to voice truth to power. Ironic. Has the U.S. now become Russia?

Joanne Garing

North Huntingdon

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