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The Issue: Jurors selected for Donald’s Trump criminal trial involving alleged hush money payments.
I find it tragic that jury members in the hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump remain anonymous due to Trump’s history of inflammatory statements — which have made innocent people the target of his supporters (“We the jury,” April 19).
Who would want to serve on a jury in which powerful forces will be aligned against them?
This trial is subjecting jurors and their families to whatever the most radical of the Trump supporters choose to dish out.
Oren Spiegler
Peters Township, Pa.
I’m glad that the Manhattan Criminal Court is not too near Fifth Avenue — where, on a lunch break, the impulsive presidential candidate might be tempted to prove his 2016 contention that: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”
Richard Siegleman
Plainview
Trump is being prosecuted because he represents old-school America, which progressives are tearing down.
Progressives demand conformity to woke authoritarianism, which falsely labels traditional Protestant American values as hateful or racist.
Edward S. Murphy
Scottsdale, Ariz.
I believe the Manhattan district attorney is totally biased against Trump, as is the judge presiding over the case. The former president will not get a fair trial — no matter who sits on the jury — because New York is a liberal, socialist, radical state that hates Trump.
John Kubenski Jr.
Trabuco Canyon, Calif.
The judge can steer this case in the direction he wants. The only saving grace is that the trial will continue to bring Trump’s poll numbers up. I hope he goes to his son’s graduation, no matter what the judge says.
Stephen Colasacco
The Bronx
The Issue: Longtime NPR editor resigning after publishing essay accusing the network of liberal bias.
After being suspended for five days — without pay — for writing an essay that exposed some of National Public Radio’s clear and blatant liberal biases in its news reporting, NPR editor Uri Berliner fell on his proverbial journalistic sword by resigning on Wednesday (“Now he’s left out,” April 18).
Berliner had worked as an editor with NPR for 25 years, and in his essay, he had highlighted NPR’s progressive slant in reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic. He even disclosed that the newsroom staff consisted of 87 Democrats and no Republicans.
This partially publicly-funded news organization has a journalistic responsibility to taxpayers to report the news in a fair and balanced manner. But it doesn’t, and Berliner had the courage to call it out.
Michael Headley
Brooklyn
Berliner did nothing more than articulate what I and possibly many other listeners have already observed.
Instead of suspending Berliner like he was Martin Luther, why did NPR not embrace this man’s courage and listen?
Denise Saupe
Minneapolis, Minn.
This column depicts the state of journalism today pretty well (“NPR & NYT unrest pits left vs. leftier,” Michael Goodwin, April 14).
While The New York Times is a private organization, NPR is taxpayer-funded and as such should cater to all taxpayers.
So how can we believe NPR anymore? We really can’t.
NPR needs to be closed down. We do not need a taxpayer-funded biased news agency. There are plenty of biased private news media around to make up for it.
Robert Fishman
Somers
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