The outlet, which describes itself as Pennsylvania’s only African American-owned and operated radio station, also said the White House’s decision to supply questions to Lawful-Sanders prolonged a historical practice of marginalizing and “de-legitimizing Black voices” in US media.
“Lawful-Sanders was one of two battleground state radio hosts who aired an interview with Biden on 4 July and described being given questions by the president’s staff ahead of the conversation.”
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. It’s also likely they’re forcing her out for admitting they fed her the questions, making the Biden team look bad.
Is it standard operating procedure or not? If it is, then why would it make the Biden team look bad for revealing that they followed the norms.
It’s not unheard of for a politician to ask what will be covered in an interview. It’s not good practice to provide questions ahead of time, and it’s unheard of to let the interviewee script the questions themselves.
Most damning is the lack of confidence Biden’s own staffers have in him to rig the interviews in which he is supposed to be demonstrating his mental agility and acuity.
Because the media is complicit and anything and everything the Biden administration does, whether good or bad, is still portrayed as bad. You just fell for their bullshit.