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 military tactics to show destruction from U.S. attacks on Iran,” June 26).
Maybe, at 84, I get outdated, and maybe I’m merely not preserving tempo with the instances, however I actually lengthy for these distant days when press conferences supplied precise data by civil and well mannered questions and solutions.
Why is it not doable 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” isn’t an oxymoron on this context.
I really get nostalgic pondering of these instances versus now, when “various info” are the solutions to troublesome questions, offered with confidence within the viewers’s lack of ability, or lack of need, to fact-check.
Laurie Pane, Burbank
