Get playing away from news
Gambling markets are invading America’s newsrooms. NCS and CNBC simply signed offers with Kalshi, a web-based playing firm, to push betting odds immediately into the news. If I activate the news throughout a catastrophe, I would like info, readability, and compassion – not the betting odds on how many individuals will survive.
Think that sounds excessive? Well, Kalshi not too long ago ran a betting market on the chance of famine in Gaza. And Donald Trump Jr. has not too long ago joined them as a “strategic advisor!” That ought to increase much more alarms about how these playing markets might be weaponized for political acquire.
News retailers are alleged to cowl the news about our authorities, economic system and society. But this offers them much more incentive to hype, distort and sensationalize to allow them to revenue from this chaos.
Unfortunately, we are able to’t undo what the grasping CEOs at NCS and CNBC have carried out, however we are able to help media that also stand for fact over revenue. We can demand our members of Congress absolutely fund public media like PBS and NPR. They’re the solely main retailers nonetheless anchored in public service – not playing on the news or making billionaires richer – and as a result of of latest funding cuts, they’re struggling to outlive.
Beth McDevitt, Medina
A political hit job
The Summit Ridge story about Frank Sinito is a disgusting political hit job on Bernie Moreno. Senator Moreno had precisely nothing to do with this story and barely something to do with Sinito, but the ABJ mentions him within the first column and consists of his image as if he’s an integral a part of the story. Then it wraps up the story with one other Moreno point out, simply in case you missed the primary one. Moreno ought to sue.
Lynne Abramovich, Akron
Stop the lies
What makes Vivek Ramaswamy assume he can get away with attempting to persuade Ohioans of his filthy lies? In a stunning assault advert, he boldly claims that candidate for Ohio governor, Dr. Amy Acton, was solely answerable for the delay of the 2020 major. At that point, she served as Ohio well being director below Governor Mike DeWine.
Factually talking, our governor has tried to set the file straight: “Amy Acton, I thought, did a good job as director. I am the one who appointed her,” DeWine said on April 13. “The fact is, she worked for me as all of the members of the cabinet do, and decisions that were made were made by the governor. If there’s a member of the cabinet who issues an order, that was at my direction.”
And, further: “In government this happens all the time. Do you think a member of the president’s cabinet would issue this kind of order without his approval?” DeWine told NBC4. “I told her to issue the health order. The decision was mine,” he added. “I ultimately thought if I did not make that decision people were going to die.”
So, my question is, why are we allowing this nonsense (as spoken by Ramaswamy) to be repeatedly aired without disclaimer? We want and need honesty in our leadership now more than ever.
Don’t fall for his lies.
Jill Schneider, Cuyahoga Falls
Republican denies election interference
Amazingly, former Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell joined a former Democratic legislator to demolish President Donald Trump’s claims that elections are rigged.
As Blackwell said, “Elections are administered locally by bipartisan boards made up of both Republicans and Democrats” with “clear rules and practical safeguards.” Every polling place is staffed with each Republicans and Democrats, as is each board of elections in Ohio.
These devoted residents scrutinize each side of each election, from voter registration to voter identification to dealing with the ballots on election day to dealing with absentee ballots. This renders voter fraud practically unattainable. As present Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has mentioned, such circumstances are “exceptionally rare.”
There is not any foundation for Trump’s declare that the 2020 election was stolen. More than 60 courts rejected his arguments. As Blackwell mentioned, these falsehoods “make it harder for citizens to trust the process and easier for people to doubt lawful outcomes.” As residents lose religion within the system, democracy suffers.
We ought to guarantee each eligible citizen is ready to vote. We ought to get rid of unnecessarily burdensome ID necessities, develop early voting and make dropoff containers handy to all voters. The bipartisan groups who implement our elections will test every other to guarantee that each one votes are authentic.
Bill Jordan, emeritus professor of regulation, University of Akron
Is this progress?
Recently the U.S. Supreme Court dominated towards a Congressional district map in Louisiana as being racially biased. Writing for almost all, Justice Samuel Alito cited what in his view is racial progress on this nation, particularly within the South.
Evidently the justice did not take note of the implications the final time the courtroom threw out provisions of the 1965 Voter Rights Act. In Alabama, residents can register to vote at state license bureaus. Within hours of that ruling, the state of Alabama closed plenty of license bureaus in predominantly African American neighborhoods.
Doesn’t appear to be racial progress to me.
Jim Kroeger, Fairlawn