To the editor: “[Defense Secretary Pete] Hegseth … spent the majority of his time slamming the media protection and personally insulting reporters who questioned him” (“Pentagon leaders cite navy techniques to point out destruction from U.S. assaults on Iran,” June 26).
Maybe, at 84, I get previous, and maybe I’m merely not holding tempo with the occasions, however I actually lengthy for these distant days when press conferences supplied precise data by way of civil and well mannered questions and solutions.
Why is it not potential for President Trump, his press secretary or his Cupboard heads to easily reply questions, even ones they don’t like, with out attacking the questioner? Each president has occasional adversarial relationships with the press and with Congress, just because every group is doing their job. It’s price remembering that “well mannered adversaries” is just not an oxymoron on this context.
I really get nostalgic considering of these occasions versus now, when “different information” are the solutions to tough questions, offered with confidence within the viewers’s lack of ability, or lack of need, to fact-check.
Laurie Pane, Burbank
