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
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.
Trump did it all of the time too, because it’s normal for interviews, not even just presidential ones.
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.”
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://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
I just did a little research myself. According to various sources, including the White House Press Office and media reports, President Trump held more press conferences and answered more questions from the press than President Biden during their respective terms.
During his presidency, President Trump held 137 press conferences, with an average of 27 questions asked per conference. He also held numerous solo press briefings and took questions from the press on a regular basis.
In contrast, President Biden has held fewer press conferences and answered fewer questions from the press. According to the White House Press Office, President Biden has held 14 press conferences, with an average of 15 questions asked per conference. He has also held fewer solo press briefings than President Trump.
It’s worth noting that President Biden has faced criticism for his handling of the press and his willingness to take questions from the media. Some have accused him of being less transparent and less accessible to the press than his predecessors, including President Trump.
Overall, while both presidents have had their own unique approaches to dealing with the press, the data suggests that President Trump answered more media questions during his term than President Biden.
That has literally nothing to do with anything you claimed:
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.
You also didn’t explain how you know he was reading from cue (not Q) cards and why that’s different from reading off of a teleprompter.
Trumps always answered questions from the media
You just gave yourself away with this one disgustingly false sentence.
According to various sources, including the White House Press Office and media reports, President Trump held more press conferences and answered more questions from the press than President Biden during their respective terms.
During his presidency, President Trump held 137 press conferences, with an average of 27 questions asked per conference. He also held numerous solo press briefings and took questions from the press on a regular basis.
In contrast, President Biden has held fewer press conferences and answered fewer questions from the press. According to the White House Press Office, President Biden has held 14 press conferences, with an average of 15 questions asked per conference. He has also held fewer solo press briefings than President Trump.
It’s worth noting that President Biden has faced criticism for his handling of the press and his willingness to take questions from the media. Some have accused him of being less transparent and less accessible to the press than his predecessors, including President Trump.
Overall, while both presidents have had their own unique approaches to dealing with the press, the data suggests that President Trump answered more media questions during his term than President Biden.
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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
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.
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
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Don’t know what to tell you bud, it happened
