With the resigned air of a man who has no defense but his cigar, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger puffed into Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel last week and faced a panel of critics from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Subject for discussion: President Kennedy's press conference.
The sniping began almost before Salinger sat down. ''The presidential news conference today," said Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News, "is disorderly, disorganized, and hard on the lower back. With the television monsters all around, the reporters have become little more than props. One of our colleagues has compared...
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