Your bias is showing
Editor:

I read your article, “Journalists are just doing their jobs” in the October 2018 magazine and was impressed with the simple wise council given by your Sunday School leader to have integrity and tell what is true. A big YES!!

However, your criticism of the president, and us “deplorables,” for attacking the fake news angers me since it neither shows integrity or truth. It would appear that you in the media are redefining truth to fit your perceptions, and that does not fly with many of us! The excessive bias shown is disgusting and unfair.

I would advise that you get real, admit that what your biased, unfair reporting has led the populace to distrust you, and commit to reporting news instead of advancing political agendas!

Ken Yoder,
Mountain Lake, Minn.

Mainstream journalism is destroying America
Hi Paula,

I read your column “Journalists are just doing their jobs,” (October, The Farmer), and yes, you are right. Journalism has become a dirty word in my vocabulary.

You are one of many journalists that I hear weeping and wailing about President Trump, free speech and the First Amendment rights. But I had my questions about journalism a long time before President Trump. President Trump is just the first president that called you out on the mat for what is happening, and so cry me a river please.

I am an avid sportsman, hence firearms and the Second Amendment are very important to me. But that right does not give me the right to take other souls’ lives just because I believe in the right to bear arms.

Mainstream journalism has a goal and that is to destroy the Republic of America. If you do not see that, you would have had to been in a closet for the last 20 years. How many times in the last 20 years has there been record-breaking news and it is splashed all over the country? And then a week later it is rescinded, and an apology is made about the mistake? This is done very quietly, I might add. The damage is done, the opinion has been given, the false news has been spread. No one remembers that it was wrong. You maybe do not do this, but the major news reporters have an agenda and a goal. It is not to report the news, it is to set up and support polices that they want implemented. If you cannot see that, may God have mercy on us all.

Harvey Koehl,
Morris, Minn.

News mirrors owners, politics
Dear Editor,

I commend and thank you for your column in The Farmer about journalists just doing their job. Your journalism education serves you well. While my thanks may be in the minority of responses, your points were right on — including your conclusion about freedom of speech being one of our nation’s principles.

I must admit that I am a journalism graduate from Kansas State. I learned early on that the press should be a mirror of society. Unfortunately, many news outlets today are mirrors of the owners and/or a specific political slant.

Thanks again,
Richard Engdahl,
Stillwater, Minn.

Trade wars are backfiring
Dear Editor,

It was interesting to see your cover photo and story for the October issue, “Tariffs hurt the heartland.” It’s funny to see all these farmers signing that board on the cover. I’ll bet the majority of those signatures voted for President #45.

The wonderful trade tariff wars are backfiring BIGLY! Do you realize that Brazil’s infrastructure is fixed, paid for by China? The seaport of Sao Paulo is going gangbusters. Google this, “Porto de santos,” and find the link on shipping. The seaports are shipping soybeans, soybean meal, corn, ETHANOL, fertilizer, farm chemicals, lumber, precious metals and on and on. Brazil also double-crops!

Because of these disastrous trade tariff wars, America is no longer a player.

I know a highly affluent person who has lived in Sao Paulo for 43 years and has been keeping an eye on all this. He owns a lot of farmland here in Minnesota. So, he’s kind of an eye witness to what is going on.

There is going to be tremendous pain in the ag sector. The farm crisis of the early eighties might be just a blip on the radar screen. God help us.

Todd Sandberg,
Ortonville, Minn.