Black-Owned Station Parts Ways With Host Who Asked Biden Questions Provided by the Campaign

[Jose Garcia]

Source: The Wrap

Philadelphia radio station WURD has decided to “mutually” part ways with “The Source” host Andrea Lawful-Sanders, as a result of her choice to use interview questions provided in advance by the Biden-Harris campaign for her interview with President Joe Biden. The station said in a lengthy statement that Lawful-Sanders had violated the station’s practices by using those questions. The interview was given to the station as part of the campaign’s efforts to reach hosts with large Black audiences; the station is a Black-owned urban talk station and is aimed at Black listeners.

According to WURD, Lawful-Sanders arranged and negotiated the conditions of her interview with the president independently and that using the questions provided by Joe Biden’s campaign “violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners. As a result, Ms. Lawful-Sanders and WURD Radio have mutually agreed to part ways, effective immediately.”

“Agreeing to a pre-determined set of questions jeopardizes that trust and is not a practice that WURD Radio engages in or endorses as a matter of practice or official policy,” the station said in its statement.

Both Lawful-Sanders and Wisconsin radio host Earl Ingram told CNN on Saturday that Biden-Harris campaign aides delivered eight questions ahead of their separate emails with the president. Lawful-Sanders said, “The questions were sent to me for approval; I approved them.”

Read more: https://www.thewrap.com/black-radio-station-wurd-andrea-lawful-sanders-biden-interview-questions/

[rzemanfl]

1. There is a long discussion of this already going on here.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Seriously, the future of DEMOCRACY is at stake and we're talking about this???

[thesquanderer]

5. If TFG had done an "independent" interview, and it was discovered that his campaign provided all the questions...

...do you not think that would have been newsworthy?

[Wonder Why]

6. The future of democracy is at stake and people are posting birth dates of celebrities, music appreciation and

photographs they have taken. So this is any different? In fact, it is important. Repugs do that every day on Faux News and other right wing media. This shows the difference between an ethical news source and the unethical, immoral and lying ones of the right.

[oasis]

3. If "WURD" grants liar Trump an interview

that’ll confirm to me what I’m thinking right now.

[RussBLib]

4. sounds like the right thing to do

...station has policies, they were violated, and a separation was "mutually agreed to."

I respect that decision.

https://russblib.blogspot.com