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At the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, WHCA President Eugene Daniels said that the dinner was meant to “honor journalistic excellence and a robust, independent media covering the most powerful office in the world.”
Mr. Daniels’ high praise of his profession’s virtues ring hollow among the people they supposedly serve: the American people. Poll after poll ranks the news media’s credibility, among the general public, at its lowest point ever. People have become tired of the anti-Trump bias in the news media and see them as just a propaganda tool of the liberal left.
A free and independent press is a sign of a functioning, healthy democracy. Journalism exists as a watchdog of private and government action, providing information to maintain an informed citizenry of voters. Journ- alism’s role should be to inform, not incite. Unfortunately, it has devolved into the latter.
Bert Oshiro
Hawaii Kai
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