In the last week, your paper has printed two news items regarding what you refer to as “fake news.”
While there is indeed such a phenomenon, it appears that your reporters and editors still fail to understand the true meaning or where it can be found. The internet, as well as social media, are saturated with fake news, although it can be found as well in the pages of many major newspapers.
Those who disseminate news via the major media are simply more adept and sophisticated in writing stories than the pseudo-journalists in social media. The commonalities between the two are essentially the same: distortions, half-truths, exaggerations, outright falsehoods and lying by omission.
I have found the latter to be common with the Riverside Press-Enterprise, in particular during the last several years.
Having read the newspaper for almost 60 years, I feel qualified to state that, while once a great source of reliable information, the paper has devolved into simply another outlet for questionable news.
I now must scrutinize every line; I wish it were not so.
— Chris Economon, Hemet
The tide of California cities against sanctuary policies is a rising one
Re “Silence from Rancho Cucamonga City Council” (Letters, April 8):
Concerning letter writer Lanford L. Blanton’s remarks about the city of Rancho Cucamonga silence, I to have wonder why the city of Yucaipa hasn’t shown any support to the city of Los Alamitos on the latter’s stance on Sacramento’s California-as-a-sanctuary-state law.
I think the very least that we need is a resolution or ordinance. I have emailed all council members and the mayor of Yucaipa and I have been told by my district representative that 60 or so individuals have to show up at council meeting to complain. Where did they get this number from?
I’ve also contacted the mayor of Los Alamitos, Troy Edge, and Congressman Paul Cook and our local newspaper here in Yucaipa. Yucaipa needs to step up to the plate. For that matter all conservative municipalities should support the city of Los Alamitos.
Are they scared of political backlash?
— George Aguirre, Yucaipa