Freedom of the press is absolutely the issue here

There’s a concise, straight forward answer to Mr. Delaney’s 2/23/17 op-ed question, “Is freedom of the press really the issue here?”

The answer is yes! Mr. Delaney obfuscates the issue with tired conservative arguments and laments, but when the President of the United States says that the nation’s news media is the “enemy of the American people,” then you’re darned right freedom of the press, and the First Amendment broadly is the issue.

I agree with what Will McRaven, a retired Navy admiral and University of Texas system chancellor said recently, “This sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.”

Richard Badalamente

Richland