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Trump tells Adin Ross he wants to ‘fire’ Black journalist who grilled him onstage
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I love how he feigned outrage at being asked about his own actions and words, and they let him go without answering the question.
If journalists had any integrity they would all band together and ask that same question first until he answers it without deflecting.
Not very far down the “why is the US so fucked up” list is the abandonment of journalism.
Is it abandonment if it’s being intentionally suppressed, suffocated, and murdered by billionaires? Real easy for a bezos/musk/gates type to buy up something like, say, the Amazon-owned Washington Post, and then only publish what is favorable to the rich
like Hearst did 100 years ago? the newspapers have been locked down by the rich since the beginning. the internet broke them for 20 years, but they mostly caught up again.
Sure. I never said it was a new phenomenon, I just used a recent example
Even the independents have to be careful what they say. Criticise the wrong thing, and suddenly all your adverts dry up.
I give them props for asking in the first place. Most journalists would never think of asking hard hitting questions because that would post them access in the future. This journalist realized that there was no possibility of her having access in the future anyway and went with it.
This is the part I always find infuriating, regardless of who is being interviewed.
But he did answer the question. It was a bad answer, but after the journalists pressed him, he did give his answer.
I think you replied to the wrong person.
I'm not sure why you're replying this to me. I listened to the whole interview.
It wasn't really a reply to you, it was context so other people can decide if he answered the question or not.
His answer is "I've been the best president for Black people since Lincoln."
As I said, it's not a good answer, but it is an answer. And he only said that bit after the journalist did press him by asking the question again, interrupting his rant in fact.
I am just not sure what you are on about with integrity. They did press him, and he did answer. She then even followed up that question by challenging Trump's answer.
But at a certain point, the answer is the answer. The journalist did her job and it's up to the viewers/readers to determine if they like or agree with that answer.
This was literally a follow up question and not a challenge to what you refer to as his answer.
The challenge I was referring to was her trying to interrupt him by asking, "more than Lyndon Johnson who signed the civil rights act?"
I think we're just going to disagree on this one. I'm not really sure why you feel the need to attack the journalists' integrities when I thought they did great considering who they were interviewing.
If he never had a chance to be interviewed by anyone ever again without being asked the same questions over and over again either he would answer clearly or not have any media coverage.