WURD host Andrea Lawful-Sanders out over using campaign-fed questions in Biden interview

[Kelly A]

Quit trying to manipulate everything. The owner is the senior management and should have been in the loop.

You mean senior management of a one-man band? 'I'll have my people call your people to set up a meeting..'

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

You mean senior management of a one-man band? 'I'll have my people call your people to set up a meeting..'

I guess the guy who owned the sandwich shop where I had a job as a teen was senior management. Sounds more elegant than “old dude who yells at everyone all day.”

 

[Deus Ex Machiato]

I guess the guy who owned the sandwich shop where I had a job as a teen was senior management. Sounds more elegant than “old dude who yells at everyone all day.”

Reminds me of a meeting we had at the small market station where I first started out. The "senior management" was one guy, and he'd recently showed up at the office behind the wheel of a brand new car after wrecking his previous one, and for some reason we were running a whole lot of spots for a certain local dealer.

Anyway, the topic at the meeting was music, and said general manager was insisting that the station - which was a CHR in the late 80s - really needed to play some Elton John album cuts because "if people heard this stuff, they'd really like it!" He relented on that front, but we still had to contend with his favorite song of all time - Incense and Peppermints by The Strawberry Alarm Clock - popping up in the gold card box every few days.

 

[ILOVERADIO]

Stop overthinking.

The campaign overstepped by suggesting scripted questions instead of recommended topics.

There is nothing that suggests the campaign made the interview contingent on using those questions.

The interviewer screwed up by using those questions. Again, whether you're a journalist or not, you do your audience a disservice by doing that because you're just giving the candidate a cue to parrot prepared responses.

The station wants better, and has (according to the CNN piece) "ended its association by mutual agreement."

Shouldn’t the interview have some surprise questions and subjects instead of allowing
the President’s staff to select the topics. If the staff say no questions about Hunter (for example) the listeners have a right to know this issue will not be covered by mutual agreement.

Without those disclosures, the audience assumes the interview in no way was coordinated between the reporter and the President’s staff which would be incorrect. To me it’s lying by omission.

 

[TheBigA]

Shouldn’t the interview have some surprise questions and subjects instead of allowing
the President’s staff to select the topics.

Had the interviewer done her job, sure. But she didn't, and now she's out.

 

[lanceventa]

Thread closed since too many cannot follow rules about keeping politics out of it.