Dear Editor:
Recently Bob Watson had an article on the front page below the fold in which Congressman Luetkemeyer shared his ignorance of the Federal Food Stamp Program and the Affordable Care Act.
Watson did not care to share out any of the established facts about these two programs in the article. I have never accused Watson of being an investigative reporter, he merely prints what the power elites have to say.
Today most of the media is owned by corporations and they are anything but liberal. Luetkemeyer is a poster boy for all the things that are wrong with Congress today.Â
This newspaper gave Luetkemeyer space on the front page to spout his ignorance of the Food Stamp Program without any corresponding facts to dispute what he is saying. More than half the people who benefit from food stamps are children. Many state workers in Missouri are the lowest paid in the nation and many of them qualify for food stamps.Â
About 800,000 Missourians are without health insurance and half of those would qualify for a government subsidy to help them obtain health insurance. These and other facts could have been added to the front page story by Watson.Â
If local newspapers are to have any relevancy in our society today other than a delivery system for advertising supplements, they need to educate the public rather than give power elites a vehicle to spread their right-wing convservative agenda.