Sorry, but it does not seem weird at all that the office of the president have questions in advance, this is the president, not someone who is going to just walk into an unscripted interview, give me a break. Pretty thin attempt to go after Bidens mental acuity, no matter the reality
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Doesn't everyone who goes on a radio show give a set of questions? I mean, politicians are supposed to be able to answer more questions than celebrities, but it's still SOP.
No it’s not SOP. Sometimes the guest will ask for a list of questions beforehand, or ask to talk about some topics and not others. Either way, to present an interview as a “journalistic” interview with the President without disclosing that you were provided the questions to ask him feels less like journalism and more like propaganda
It's a violation of journalism ethics.
It is propaganda. Democrats have an amazing ability to ruin their chances at winning by picking the worst possible candidates and making the dumbest possible decisions while gaslighting everyone about it.
Picking the worst possible candidates apparently doesn't matter.
/me gesticulating wildly at Donald Trump
Why? It’s. Normal to have a list of acceptable questions. Given to you by the interviewer.
They agree to the interview with the understanding that they can actually prepare for the questions.
Except the white house sent the questions they wanted asked, looking for the interviewers approval.
The station the interviewer worked for, saying they were no Biden mouthpiece, fired the interviewer for doing so.
Don't see a problem here, it's pretty standard... It's not like the president of the United States is going to just wing it...
Except the white house sent the questions they wanted asked, looking for the interviewers approval.
and again, that's fairly standard practice. Either the interviewer sends a list of potential questions, or the interviewee sends the questions. It's normal. I guarantee you every presidential candidate whose done interviews since the advent of radio has done this.
Meanwhile, there's an entire right wing media machine that purposefully collaborates with Republican candidates and their campaigns
That doesn't make this right. If democrats are going to make a mockery of the democratic process to "save democracy", they're not actually saving democracy.
Yeah and if that's the sort of thing that I wanted, I'd be voting for the Republicans.
And the NY Times is part of it
Also, you can't feed Trump questions because it doesn't matter what you ask him, he's not going to answer it anyway.
Is a hamberder a question?
