'Trusted journalism'

In this week’s Village News, (1/14/21), an announcement soliciting advertisers included this: “We’re proud of our brand of trusted journalism.” Journalism? Really?

I’ve been saddened by the shift to the extreme right of the Village News in recent months. We have James Veltmeyer’s pooh-poohing the use of face masks. And the reports from the Epoch Times (which consistently calls the coronavirus the “Chinese Communist Party virus”). And the slanted articles such as the one comparing Trump’s pardons of his criminal cronies with Obama’s sentence commutations for long-ago drug offenders.

Recently, t...