No Room for Bias in Power Line Reporting

The reporter covering a meeting on the health effects of
electromagnetic fields shouldn't have labeled expert
David Carpenter "controversial."
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LETTER: No room for bias in power line reporting
by Mark Bartley, Letter, app.com, 29 July 2016

Regarding the July 22 story “Is The JCP&L transmission line dangerous?” I had always been under the impression that the purpose of a good newspaper was to report events as they happened without any bias from either the writer or management unless it is part of the opinion page.

With that in mind, I was confused after reading the coverage of David Carpenter’s recent presentation on the physical effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) to a group of Monmouth County residents at Raritan High School.
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