DEAR EDITOR:

Brenda Linert’s March 13 column opened with: ” ‘Fake news!’ is the frequent frustrating chant we, in my business, hear too often.”

She rightly pointed out most “fake news” shows up on social media.

Social media is a means to vent frustration. Much of social media is opinion. Critical thinkers can distinguish opinions from facts. Many feel helpless as they watch the disasters created by the Biden administration. Three more years of this president magnifies that helpless feeling. Knowing the next in line is Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi is not very comforting! In fact, it is more distressing.

Regarding “Fake News,” all print journalists and broadcasters are painted with the same brush. It’s unfair and sad, but true. Ask any honest lawyer about this phenomenon. People have short memories or maybe current events drown out the past. Recall the front page of the March 25, 2019, Vindicator headline, in bold type, “Report: Trump did not conspire with Russia.”

Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff (who has yet to reveal the damning evidence he continually claimed he had), and other D.C. Trump haters spent more than $30 million and put our nation through two years of turmoil. Major newspapers and national television news stations, and even government-funded NPR, repeated leaks and misinformation from anonymous sources which perpetuated the hoax. Where was The Associated Press’ fact check? Social media pointed out the source of the Steele dossier and its funding before major outlets. Most news outlets, to this day, do not admit being wrong. I believe they were complicit in the character assassination and the nation’s division created by this “fake news.” They are paying a heavy price in lost viewers.

The most glaring “fake news” sin was one of omission. The New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop was banned from Twitter and Facebook days before the 2020 election. News outlets refused to touch the story. Biden claimed it was fake. Fifty former senior intelligence officials led by the former Obama administration’s CIA Director John Brennan and James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, signed a letter dismissing the laptop as a Russian operation. These folks did not examine the laptop!

Miranda Devine’s new book, “The Laptop from Hell,” meticulously researched with documented sources, will be an eye opener for Biden supporters. Biden has repeatedly claimed to know nothing about Hunter’s business dealings. The book proves otherwise. And that is the least-damning information revealed.

Anyone who trusts Joe Biden needs to read this book! And if you trust him after you read the book, our nation is doomed.

JOE LoCICERO

Canfie