givesomefucks , 20 days ago

How it normally works is the presidents team says:

These are the topics we’d like to talk about.

And those are usually what gets asked about

This time the campaign team provided 8 questions. The host picked four and said she’d ask about those topics.

Then the campaign sent back that those four she had picked were the “approved” questions. So she felt pressured to ask them exactly as approved.

This was (I believe) the only Black owned radio station in the state, and Biden has attacked everyone that’s went against him in the last week. The NY Times can survive that. Small time local news radio can not.

There’s a lot of implicit pressure due to the power imbalance.