Kyle Smith’s “Life Inside the Media Bubble” (PostScript, June 14), which concludes that you can choose your own facts, is superb.

The media are overwhelming us. The Founding Fathers thought political parties, in concert with a muckraking press, represented the biggest threat to the republic.

Over 160 years ago, Charles Dickens wrote that the US Senate represented a perversion of political machinery, including cowardly attacks on opponents using scurrilous newspapers for shields and pens for daggers.

He should see us now.

Ken Nelson, Mechanicsburg, Pa.