To the editor:

While I realize that writing a letter to the editor is a way to express one’s opinions on current events, I would just like to ask that everyone does a little research before writing one. In the recent letter dated June 4 “Trump doing the best he can for all of us” the author referred to the cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline “eliminating 11,000 six figure jobs.” This information is totally false and took me all of 2 minutes on Google to find multiple sources that labeled this as false. This is just one example of many I have seen in the opinion pieces in the Journal. Whether you are writing in favor of Trump and his policies or in opposition please research your information before using it as if it is fact when it is clearly not. PolitiFact, Snopes, FactCheck.org, The Washington Post Fact Checker, FactCheck.me, TruthOrFiction.com, and Media Bias/FactCheck are just a few examples one can use to validate information prior to instantly believing and propagating something they read or heard. In this increasingly polarized world, it is more important than ever to research and cite sources to ensure that what we are stating has a factual basis behind it.

David Nelson

Hutchinson