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

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      4 months ago

      People who don’t know that questions are preselected to some degree in like 80% of interviews, especially big names like presidents.

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        4 months ago

        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.

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          4 months ago

          Trump did it all of the time too, because it’s normal for interviews, not even just presidential ones.

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            4 months ago

            I’ve worked in radio and TV and yeah, even the guy running for city council will have their campaign manager and/or media manager come in and say, “we want to make sure you ask Dave about the council’s plan to raise sewage prices.”