Inconsiderate reporters
Sir, — Why should our Prime Minister on arrival from overseas be subjected to a barrage of persistent and needlessly repetitive questioning by some reporters attempting to make political capital by the type of questions posed? It is unfair that a Prime Minister, of whatever political persuasion, should, after a long, tiring journey, be expected to answer all kinds of political questions, deliberately framed in such manner as later to be quoted as contradictions. It is the duty of the personal staff of our Ministers to safeguard them from such annoying situations. The Parliamentary method of requesting “due notice of a question” could place a control on the activities of these “smart alec” reporters. It was observed that not one reporter had the courtesy to first extend a warm welcome home before the merciless interrogation. — Yours, etc., R. V. SHAW. July 2, 1977.
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