To the editor: Jonah Goldberg writes that President-elect Donald Trump won despite the efforts of the monolithic liberal media to tell a narrative about his unworthiness. He describes this outcome as if the American people wrote their own narrative, because the media doesn't matter.
It makes no mention of the existence of Fox News and MAGA promoters online, which fuel a vigorous media ecosystem of MAGA narratives. It also implies that since doctors and plumbers do not claim to be relevant to the functioning of democracy, journalists should not be either.
The idea that the media doesn't matter much is a strange view for a professional political commentator.
Hans Berggren, Santa Monica
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To the editor: Surprisingly, Goldberg either fails to point out the difference between journalists and opinion writers, or is intentionally misleading.
Journalists conduct research, interview sources, verify information and then produce an article. Not all opinion writers use these safeguards.
In our fact-free universe, the death of journalism is terrifying. That the cancer of social media is what passes for a public informant is terrifying.
Melissa Verdugo, Rancho Palos Verdes
