Focus on college degrees makes reporting appear biased

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Re “Mooresville broker hopes to run NY Times,” April 13, and On the Level with Nicholas Peters, April 24

In two recent articles, you made a point of reporting that two people in the real estate business did not have a college degree. One was an article about a commercial real estate broker who had applied for a job at The New York Times, and another article was about a real estate broker named Peters.

It seems as if you have an inferiority complex that makes you feel inferior to people without a college degree who may earn more money than a reporter with a college degree.

Why not also comment on your subject’s sex and religion or political party?

What does a college degree have to do with your articles except to make it appear the subject is an uneducated, unsophisticated individual?

You could have omitted all reference to a college education and the article would have been more unbiased. Your college degree comment makes your writing appear biased or opinionated rather than factual.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and many very successful people do not have a college degree, so why does a college degree have any bearing on the perception you project of the people you profile in your articles?

I pay for your paper and, therefore, indirectly pay your salary. Your paper never asked about my education when asking for my money to pay your salary.

Your job does not require a college degree unless your newspaper owners or boss – master – require a college degree for personal reasons.

A college degree is not required to be a U.S. Supreme Court justice or president of the USA.

Andrew Carnegie said any man that worked for another man was no more than a slave. I bet many of your subscribers or readers are self-employed and do not depend on a boss to hand them a paycheck each week as most reporters do.

Most reporters are scared to step out on their own and write books or work for themselves without the safety net of having a sugar daddy boss at their newspaper to guarantee the reporter a paycheck each week.

The Meck Times articles never mentioned whether or not Donald Trump or his son had a college degree when reporting on Trump’s purchase of The Point golf course.

Gene Poore, Charlotte

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