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Radio host resigns after admitting Biden aides gave her questions for interview
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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Not passing judgement on anyone's behavior, but isn't it typical to be given a list of approved questions when interviewing someone like the president?
Yes. I don’t personally understand what the story is here. I’ve never heard of any high-profile politician going into an scheduled interview without a team providing a list of approved questions.
The story is:
The presidents aides called a radio station before an interview with the president to give them a list of questions.
This is bad journalism.
Imagine if Trump gave CNN a list of questions they could ask him on air. Would you watch that interview? Take it seriously?
No, I wouldn’t watch that interview. I, and I’d wager everyone else using the fediverse, am highly skeptical of large media institutions specifically because they engage in questionable journalistic practices like this.
My point is: there is no scandal here. It seems to me that this story is getting signal boosted specifically to discredit the president. The realities of interviews like this are left out of these headlines and it’s very frustrating.
The story is a cover up
No. It's fairly common for interviewees to ask for a list of questions beforehand, but according to Boston University journalism professor Christopher Daly "it is not good professional practice to give questions in advance to sources such as public officials." And to let the interviewee actually write the questions for you is egregious journalism malpractice, thus the resignation.
Not sure but that wouldn't surprise me.
Regardless, the optics at the moment are harmful. I mostly appreciate the job Joe has done, but I'm starting to come around on a Kamala candidacy.
If he resigned from the Presidency now, for personal reasons, that would be nothing but respected by almost all Americans. Kamala would become President, and be running as the incumbent trying to continue his policies and direction into the next term.
She may not poll well at the moment, but that could be worked on.
The election is in ~3 months (doesn't seem like it given our 3 year election cycles, but it is). I'm hesitant to add any more chaos to this already chaotic election.
Better to add more "chaos" than to bet the future of the world on an already losing candidate who's only digging the hole deeper every time he reaffirms his commitment to not listen to the people he's supposed to represent.
Agree he should just resign and go spend the last couple years of his life doing whatever it is he does for fun rather than sitting in the Oval Office and having his brain continue to rot.
But eh, I don't see there being a single chance for Kamala to actually win.
Seriously. Let him go back to being Diamond Joe and polishing his Trans Am.
Do you think she would resign if it was typical?
I have absolutely no idea, hence why I was asking.
It sounds like the problem is she accepted the questions in violation of policy, but the headlines around this don't actually SAY that, and keep talking about how they gave her questions.
Which, fair enough, don't do things your employer explicitly tells you not to do if you like your job and want to keep it, i guess?
She's being forced out for admitting they fed her the questions.