Regarding the Aug. 16 editorial “No More Enemies”: Once again the Post-Gazette editorial board has engaged in faulty logic on how to end the “enemy of the people” argument presented by the current occupant of the White House.
The editorial board’s view is summed up with the saying: “go along to get along.” This argument fails to realize several things: 1) that’s not how you deal with a bully, 2) anything said about him that is not complimentary is either “fake news” or makes the commenter an “enemy of the people,” so he will never be happy with the free press, and 3) it is not the function of the press in this society to just go along. The free press is not state-run media.
Only when said occupant quits lying and spreading his own fake news should the press back down from its critical functions in this country. I suggest that if the PG editorial board can’t stand the heat, its members find a new line of work.
JOSH BAYER
Lawrenceville
Note from KBJ: I have a question for Josh Bayer. Was Barack Obama the "current occupant of the White House" from January 2009 to January 2017?
