A weekly newsletter on power and the press Good Morning, Pete Hegseth suggested to journalists on Friday that he knows where they’re coming from — before unloading on TV coverage of the Iran war. “Allow me to make a few suggestions,” he said at a news conference. “People look at the TV and they see banners, they see headlines — I used to be in that business, and I know everything is written intentionally.” For example, Hegseth suggested a headline declaring “Mideast War Intensifies” should instead read “Iran Increasingly Desperate.” He specifically accused CNN of “fake news,” before saying that the sooner Paramount chief David Ellison “takes over that network, the better.” Hegseth’s own-the-libs style of media criticism wouldn’t... 
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