Queanbeyan Age letters to the editor July 25, 2017

Updated July 24 2017 - 1:27pm, first published 1:17pm
Australia’s Biggest Blood Pressure Check: One in three participants were found to have high blood pressure. Photo: Andrew Quilty.
Australia’s Biggest Blood Pressure Check: One in three participants were found to have high blood pressure. Photo: Andrew Quilty.

Society at a crossroads

Trump's attack on the press is emblematic of dictatorial, autocratic regimes (Letters: Trump attack undignified, QA, July 11, p.4). It should be noted that those in power, who might be expected to spring to media's defence, are strangely silent. Could it be they are content for Trump to do their dirty work for them, in eroding the credibility of what few voices may remain in, euphemistically titled, democratic societies. Any pretence the US might be a democracy should have been, finally, dispelled when the US Supreme Court decided the 2000 presidency!

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