Letter: Media paints a yellow picture of Trump’s comment

Josh Magness of McClatchy’s Washington bureau in a great yellow journalism presentation of statistics (Norway vs USA: How the 2 countries stack up on healthcare, income and life expectancy, Jan. 12) writes that more people are leaving the USA to immigrate to Norway than the other way around (895 left and 502 came).

Pick your bias, present your statistics.

While his numbers may be technically correct and it helps him in his sneering at our president, he could have just as accurately said that on a per capita basis, for every 1 leaving the USA, 34.69 Norwegians come.

That is correct too. But it wouldn’t fit the narrative.

Then in the news conference, our president was asked if he was a racist.

To answer that question, a professor at a university answered. Are our news sources biased? Hello, is anybody home?

Nobody likes their president using vulgar language. I don’t.

But Trump’s point, in case it is lost on the news media, is that the contribution of a person from a highly educated country is likely more valuable to our economy than the contribution of a person from a poor and largely uneducated country who is far more likely to be another statistic on our welfare rolls.

Media, your slip is showing.

This story was originally published January 22, 2018 at 4:49 PM with the headline "Letter: Media paints a yellow picture of Trump’s comment."