I waited an hour, if I find it terribly rude and unpleasant, even hateful. I suppose my name is too ethnic for the old money controlled media. The dismissive crap is enraging.
No a stringer, or a call or an e-mail response to regular or gmail.
A stringer would make sense.
This is what causes people to mistrust the press, they don’t want to educate, they want to tell you what you should think matters.