Black-Owned Station Parts Ways With Host Who Asked Biden Questions Provided by the Campaign [View all]
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.”
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