I felt the mask reporting in Fountain Hills was one-sided

I would've never thought that my time in high school journalism class all those years ago would be so important today.

You see, I learned a very valuable lesson that is lost on most of today's journalists and that is to report just the facts and let the readers decide. In other words, keep your opinion out of it and for two reasons: it's just an Op Ed otherwise and because people are smart enough to form their own opinions. Obviously, that's not something this paper subscribes to and that is especially evident in the "reporting" of the latest local debacle (of which there seems to be no end of) regarding the Christmas tree and the mask of a duly elected U.S. President inside a Christmas wreath, of all places, that I thought looks like a decapitated head.