Have Herald layoffs ended its woke agenda?

The “go woke, go broke” wave seems to have recently washed over The Herald. After years of increasingly backing any government “leaders” or actions (and expenses) that furthered the woke agenda, and ignoring the abuses of same, The Herald’s increasingly tilted editorial bias became a financial and philosophical yoke that all but killed it. I finally cancelled my subscription, in disgust over the lack of journalistic honesty in service to the woke agenda.

The refusal to call out local politicians on “misrepresentation of facts”, cost of government increases at multiple times the rate of inflation (see property taxes, levies, ST3 etc.) and a host of supposed investigative reporting that supported government overreach over individual rights, slowly but surely moved the publication from local journalistic touchstone to far-left propaganda rag.

I can only hope that the new owners will move the mission of the paper from ultra-liberal talking points to fact-based, unbiased reporting of events, and the agendas that drive those events. I have renewed my subscription in advance support of the changes that are undoubtedly to come; I sympathize with those that lost their jobs in the purge, but, assuming they were the core of the far-left shift, am glad they can no longer negatively effect the news organization that Snohomish County counts on.

Scott Lee

Snohomish