Editorial of June 26, 2025

What You Read Is What We Get

A couple weeks ago, a subscriber called to cancel her AllOtsego subscription. When asked why, she responded, “Well, we like reading the news, and we like your website, but you’re just becoming too left-leaning.” Although at first surprising—as we work very hard to remain objective in our reporting—we understood.

While it is true that we strive to provide balanced, fact-based news coverage, our content has, indeed, been leaning to the left of late. Our motto since September 2022 has been, and continues to be, “putting the community back into the newspaper.” We encourage submissions from our readers of opinion pieces, letters to the editor, guest columns and the like. This is your newspaper when all is said and done, and we want your voices to be heard.

To that end, we are seeing our goal of community participation come to fruition. Take our “Letters to the Editor” section, for instance. From Election Day last November to the end of 2024, we published 35 letters. Four of those letters expressed negative opinions of president-elect Trump, while one was cautiously optimistic. The rest focused primarily on topics specifically of local concern. From January 1, 2025 through our issues of June 19, we published 109 letters. Of those, 58 were staunchly opposed to the current administration for various reasons. Twelve of the 109 letters, all written by the same individual, praised Trump’s leadership and trajectory for the nation.