It is sickening to watch many of the so called interviews.

the best and the brightest in those positions.

aren't actually reporters.

They're not even news anchors.

They are REALITY TV SHOW HOSTS.

Tell that to the ones who were arrested.

They are reporters.

They just suck at their jobs.

apples aren't oranges either.

Horses aren't dogs.

That they are taught that in Journalism school

that he wasn't worth arguing with.

They're getting paid not to ask follow up questions to conservatives, someone somewhere is paying them not to do it.

I'm convinced of it.

What do you think?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

not listening to the response is a common problem in interviewing. It takes skill to listen and to respond in the moment.

Nobody's paying them to not ask follow-up questions. They aren't intentionally softballing the interviewee (except for Fox). They are just caught up in the direction of what they intended to ask and aren't prepared to go in another direction. Really skilled interviewers are rare. And sometimes (as with a zero like Ben Carson) it just isn't worth the effort because you know you won't get anything interesting out of them anyhow. Tapper is usually pretty good.

when they're interviewing liberal guests? That person was right, suddenly they've got nothing BUT followup questions for liberal guests.

It may not be money involved, but SOMETHING stinks. Something's going on.

while the conservatives just regurgitate the same old talking points and they know that's all they'll ever get from them? Liberals will give them honest answers and conservatives will just give them bullshit. There's no conspiracy, just ineffective interviewers who are too busy thinking about what they're going to say to listen to the interviewees' answers.

Still think there's something going on, though.

Why anyone gives a flying fuck about interviewing conservatives is beyond me. Oh, right. Donor money. Gotta dance for the $$$.

CNN tries to paint conservatives into a corner defending Trump's latest tweet.

This never works and they just go round and round wasting time. The Kellyanne interviews are exasperating.

It borders on being a straw man argument. You can ask tough questions of conservatives that they actually bite on. It just takes some journalistic effort.

MSNBC only exists because there is a market for news from that perspective, but that doesn't mean the corporate execs are going to give the newscasters free rein.

Listen to the BBC. Not the one in this country, but any of their broadcasts from London. They do not let people get away with not answering a question, and often ask follow up questions.