I have watched and read with interest the political landscape.

The 24-hour news cycle and the mainstream media have lost their way. The importance of the media to report news had been a bulwark of our democracy so that their readers could form opinions.

The key words are “had been.”

Now, instead of reporting news, they are giving us their opinions about the news.

I find it interesting that people are hyperventilating and saying President Trump is scaring people. It’s the opinions of these reporters that are scaring people.

In fact, Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times said, “If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the U.S. nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?

“Because if you believe all of those things, you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way you’ve never approached anything in your career.

“If you view a Trump presidency as something that’s potentially dangerous, then your reporting is going to reflect that. You would move closer than you’ve ever been to being oppositional.”

So that is the view reporters have (liberal bias) and that is why they report in a hyperbolic way and have people so frightened.

By the way, I don’t have the same opinion of Trump. I believe he is a successful businessman who doesn’t give a rip about what politicians or reporters think and is so completely unfiltered, and unafraid to challenge them.

How refreshing from the politician who smiles at you while they lie through their teeth. The media means to bring him down because he doesn’t play the game the way they think he should be playing it.

That is precisely why Mr. Trump was voted to be president.

SHERRY FILE

Cassopolis