News @lemmy.world NoSuchAgency @lemdro.id 2 wk. ago

Philadelphia radio host who interviewed Biden leaves station | CNN Business

www.cnn.com Philadelphia radio host who interviewed Biden leaves station | CNN Business

Radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders has stepped down from WURD after admitting that her post-debate interview with President Joe Biden included questions that had been pre-selected

Radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders has stepped down from WURD after admitting that her post-debate interview with President Joe Biden included questions that had been pre-selected

30 comments

who even actually cares about this?
- People who don't know that questions are preselected to some degree in like 80% of interviews, especially big names like presidents.
  
  Source? I don't think Trumps ever been caught doing something like that
  
  That's not supposed to be the case. If Trump tried something like that, we'd never hear the end of it. The press is supposed to ask hard questions to politicians, especially the President. There should never be special treatment.
- People that care about a free press, transparency, & accountability
So much kerfuffle over such a non-scandal. Giving interviewers questions is S.O.P. for media people in a campaign. If Trump's people aren't doing it too, the only reason is because Trump never answers questions anyway.
- Trumps always answered questions from the media. Biden rarely does and when he does it's usually just a yes or no answer he gives unless it's a pre-selected question of course. Then he just reads the answer off of his Q cards.
  
  I don't know what universe you live in, but it isn't ours.
  
  I mean just do a search for "Trump doesn't answer questions" and you can come up with tons of results from legitimate publications.
  
  Some examples:
  
  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-refuses-answer-questions-jan-6-conduct-behaved/story?id=103262337
  
  https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-riot-pardon-abortion-putin-59460113ce82ce6f6140d47856261a56
  
  https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/donald-trump-covid-19-coronavirus/index.html
  
  There's more than one article about how difficult it is to interview Trump:
  
  https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1023436/so-how-do-you-interview-donald-trump-anyway
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/donald-trump-media-interviews-press-questions
  
  The guy won't even answer when he's asked if he'll accept the election results whether or not he wins: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y85zwj1xo
  
  Also, do tell us how you know when Biden is given a pre-selected question or is reading off of cue cards.
  
  And is reading from cue cards different from Trump using a teleprompter? Remember when he complained how it doesn't work so he can't read from a script? https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-nevada-rally-heat-las-vegas-90b0c766b9bfc41b370953834b70f7c9
  
  Trumps always answered questions from the media
  
  You just gave yourself away with this one disgustingly false sentence.
  
  ROFL
It's not just radio interviews like this, it's late night talk shows too. Everyone knows the questions and answers before they go live.

This journalists problem is that she didn't have to actually USE the questions, she could have gone her own direction.
- How it normally works is the presidents team says:
  
  These are the topics we'd like to talk about.
  
  And those are usually what gets asked about
  
  This time the campaign team provided 8 questions. The host picked four and said she'd ask about those topics.
  
  Then the campaign sent back that those four she had picked were the "approved" questions. So she felt pressured to ask them exactly as approved.
  
  This was (I believe) the only Black owned radio station in the state, and Biden has attacked everyone that's went against him in the last week. The NY Times can survive that. Small time local news radio can not.
  
  There's a lot of implicit pressure due to the power imbalance.
This account is less than a month old and has a ton of downvotes (100+). Even says that Trump always tells the truth even when he is on record saying the opposite. This is a bot.
- Yep. Dude is a huge MAGA troll and now that we have an actual trumper here, note how his argument is nearly indistinguishable from that of the anti-Biden far lefters you see spamming their shit.
  
  It’s uncanny!
- No bot here. I just don't go along with the lefts narrative. That's the reason for the downvotes
  
  Keep telling yourself that, buf
A lot of people have suspected that this was happening for a long time. Biden carries cards with him that tell him what reporters to call on, and sometimes says he'll get in trouble if he takes anymore questions.
- "A lot of people"
  
  i.e no one.
  
  "Some people say..."
  
  This has been talked about a lot on conservative news networks. Of course, liberal news networks just shove it under the rug because it doesn't go with their propaganda
- Data pulled freshly out of your arse.
  
  Don't know what to tell you bud, it happened

You've viewed 30 comments.