The Herald’s Jan. 1 editorial (“Help newspapers fulfill watchdog role — subscribe”) described the decline of newspapers in terms of revenue and readership, as noted by the Pew Center and NPR, but failed to describe the reasons for the decline.
I realize that the opinion pages reflect the opinion of the ownership of The Herald, and the editorials of Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 (“Our resolutions for state and federal lawmakers”) are symptomatic of the ownership’s biases. The cartoons of the year and Tom Burke’s column for example are “all hate Trump every day,” and that is true for most of your columnists and cartoonists for the rest of the year.
Perhaps The Herald believes it is playing to its base and its audience but even in blue Washington that leaves out half of its potential readership. No wonder revenue is declining, because print media is ignoring what is important to a large part of its potential readership. You (on a national level) have become a one-party media and are functionally unable to “provide reporting that is accurate, fair and engaging and lives up to the watchdog role that is expected of us.” Your biases leak over to the “news” pages, and you would be well served to hire an ombudsman to offer a non-liberal, truly non-biased point of view as to how to make your product appeal to a broader audience.
If you really want to improve your product and make it more useful to more readers, help us solve the three major problems we must solve before we can recover our country; Reestablish journalism and an unbiased media, destroy and replace the left-leaning “education/indoctrination system,” and re-establish our borders and immigration system starting with building the wall!
Curt Greer
Marysville
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