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Proud liberal 80

(4,167 posts)
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:30 PM Feb 2021

So now the White House press reporters want to ask follow up questions

A thing that drove me crazy during Press Secretary press conferences under Trump is that a reporter would ask a question, but Spicer, Sanders, or Mcamaney would lie and spin. Then they would call on another reporter and that reporter would let them off the hook by moving on to another unrelated question....now I am constantly seeing reporters when it’s their turn to follow up with the previous reporter’s question

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So now the White House press reporters want to ask follow up questions (Original Post) Proud liberal 80 Feb 2021 OP
Funny how that works, isn't it? SoonerPride Feb 2021 #1
Of course they are UpInArms Feb 2021 #2
Drives me nuts. nt ooky Feb 2021 #3
Follow-up questions are the normal order of things. stopbush Feb 2021 #4

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
1. Funny how that works, isn't it?
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:32 PM
Feb 2021

You're not alone in noticing that the press seems to want to do its job.

Things that you go hmmmmm.

UpInArms

(51,282 posts)
2. Of course they are
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:34 PM
Feb 2021

So easy to act like they don’t know what they are not doing under qpublicon rule and, then, act like it was the democratic administrations that require that extra mile.

5 corporations own 95% of all media.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
4. Follow-up questions are the normal order of things.
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:49 PM
Feb 2021

It’s only a problem if the person standing at the podium is a coward. Unfortunately, the WHPC was abetting the cowards during tRump’s time in office.

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