Trump’s questionable press ban: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: President Trump banning MS NOW, CNN and Politico reporters from the White House.
President Trump, the censor-in-chief, has determined what’s and isn’t match to print (“Trump’s NO’s for news trio,” Sept. 19).
He is without spending a dime speech provided that it’s favorable to him.
Such a view contradicts conservatives’ argument that there ought to be no censorship and people ought to be free to resolve the reality.
Reporters don’t should be honest to anybody.
It’s long been accepted that there are right-leaning and left-leaning information shops.
Editorials have at all times leaned a technique or one other.
Is the true difficulty that Trump is a snowflake and might’t stand any criticism, so he makes use of his energy to attempt to silence the information?
George Magakis Jr.
Norristown, Pa.
It’s been apparent for a long time that MS NOW, CNN and Politico don’t have America’s pursuits at coronary heart.
One can hearken to the president converse after which learn one thing revealed by these three shops that’s twisted in such a approach that it doesn’t even come close to what he really mentioned.
The press has an obligation to report the information, factually and in an unbiased method.
MS Now, CNN and Politico have forgotten that.
There’s a distinction between the liberty of the press and being the mouthpiece of a regime.
Jane Tarbet
Highland, Mich.
The president is flawed; no journalists ought to be banned.
Former President Barack Obama was additionally flawed in eradicating conservative newspapers from his press aircraft and trying to dam Fox News from an interview.
How about we stop the finger-pointing from each side?
Also, the press ought to stop the inflammatory feedback and be a little more goal.
Marianne Haas
Berkeley, Calif.
I imagine in freedom of the press.
However, masking the White House is a privilege, not a proper.
Robert Berk
Manhattan
The sound of silence might be very loud, as President Trump has came upon.
The opening of his White House helicopter touchdown pad was proven however not heard, an oddity in fashionable information reporting however all his own doing.
By attempting to silence a number of media shops, he has attacked the liberty of the press and the First Amendment and received himself a fightback with decreased protection by protesting information shops.
It’s tempting to be happy with the diminished protection of Trump, however any restriction to public debate is flawed and a worrying signal that have to be referred to as out loudly.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Box Hill, Australia
This sounds barely acquainted.
What’s the traditional story in regards to the king who obtained dangerous information from the battlefront and had the messenger killed?
Hank Taylor
Bryan, Texas
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The Issue: Homelessness in New York City reaching a five-year high underneath Mayor Mamdani.
Maybe the people who voted for Mayor Mamdani wish to take some of the homeless people home (“Curb surge of despair,” Sept. 19).
The consequence of their vote has had penalties for all New Yorkers.
The odor of urine and the homeless shantytown is on them.
Give the remainder of us shelter from their morally bankrupt concepts.
Peter Cooper
Bronxville
Congratulations, Mamdani, in your triumph in socialist insurance policies relating to homelessness.
These insurance policies have allowed the homeless population in New York City to grow — and the mayor has addressed the considerations concerning the homeless with great effectivity, making it a a lot better life journey for them.
Hopefully, the nice mayor will develop a Yelp review program so the homeless can higher resolve the place they may sleep at night time.
Maybe the progressive college students at NYU can help transfer this program alongside.
Michael Patracuolla
Bloomfield, NJ
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