For instance, blacks are about 14 percent of the U.S. population, yet they commit approximately 50 percent of the crimes. If crime is not policed in minority communities because of a crusade by liberals against the police, the minority community and good citizens therein will suffer. Is that what the Herald and the rest of the liberal media actually want?

Blaming the police for focusing on overly large crime rates in black and Hispanic communities is a false narrative. The “War on Women” was a false narrative. “Disparate sentencing for blacks” is usually a false narrative because the media neglect to mention that different sentences for “the same crime” is often caused by the fact that a person caught with drugs for the umpteenth time gets a harsher sentence than someone committing the same crime for the first time. “Unequal pay for women” has been shown by numerous studies to be a false narrative, mainly because women tend to take jobs that allow them more time for family rearing. Global warming has not happened in over 18 years, despite all the dire predictions; yet, the false narrative that “climate change” is happening continues to be spread, regardless of the actual temperatures and records.

It used to be that the news media investigated and reported facts to the public. For some reason, our liberal media is now intent on advocating narratives that agree with liberal positions. The problem is so bad that now there are large discussions and television shows discussing partisan bias in the news.

It would be nice if journalism became more objective again and dispensed with selling false narratives.

Mike Sigman

Durango