2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumVIDEO of msnbc giving clinton spokesperson heads up on questions to come...ooops
you can bitch about the free beacon all you want, but video is video
MSNBC had an awkward moment while trying to conduct a post-debate interview Sunday night, as reporter Kristen Welker appeared not to know she was live and told a Hillary Clinton aide what she would be asking her during their segment.
She then interrupted the guest, Jen Palmieri, when she heard a delayed prompt from the studio.
Ari Melber threw to Welker to speak with Palmieri, a flack for Hillary Clinton, but Welker was in mid-conversation with Palmieri and was telling her she would ask a question about Flint, Michigan, the site of Sunday nights debate, because of the water crisis there.
And Im going to ask you about Flint, Welker said.
Kristen, go ahead, youre live, Melber said. You know, we have Kristen Welker. Were looking at her. She couldnt quite hear me before. Can you hear me now? If you can, go ahead.
Welker appeared to be receiving a delayed signal. Finally, she began the interview.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-reporter-no-idea-shes-live-post-debate-interview/
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Has been proven multiple times but people will only attack your link.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Disgusting.
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Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)(Will Rogers, speaking as Calvin Coolidge): "I am proud to report, that the country as a whole is prosperous. I don't mean by that, that the whole country is prosperous, but as a hole, it is prosperous. Now a hole is not supposed to be prosperous, and we are certainly in a hole.
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Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I'll have a look when I get a chance.
DebDoo
(319 posts)people usually know what they're going to be talking about before they give an interview on tv.
Optimism
(142 posts)... about going to that last questioner's same Church, in that ridiculous question on Religion. (Who knew?)
Aside from the PLANT aspects, isn't there supposed to be something about separation of church and state in this country?
jillan
(39,451 posts)anything else.
The Clintons loved to paint Obama as the other during 2008.
longship
(40,416 posts)That does not align with Hillary's C Street allies.
After all, this is a Christian nation, as they relentlessly remind us.
Anybody who aligns themselves with "The Family" is no friend of mine. And anybody who would mix religion and politics is my enemy.
I do not mind religious people in office. However, I reject people who think that to hold office means that they have some religious authority. And it is always authority with them, from above.
The more a candidate declares that, the less I will support them.
And " The Family" is a non-starter.
Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)anymore because if they don't see how the media is spinning it now they never will.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Granted I've only been interviewed on local news, but I've never done an interview where they didn't tell me basically what they were going to ask before they rolled the camera. It's not like she was sitting down with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes.
hack89
(39,171 posts)why wouldn't a reporter tell someone what questions they would ask? Wouldn't it make for a better interview?
Mufaddal
(1,021 posts)Typically hosts go over what they are going to ask their guests.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)religious questions during the debate.
Candidates and questioners should disclose such "coincidences" before asking or answering questions whenever possible in my opinion.
Otherwise, it looks like collusion. May not be, but that is how it appears to a completely objective viewer.
We'd like to know before an answer is given who knows whom because out her in nobody-important-land, we want to know who is really speaking and what the background relationships between the speakers are.
We also like to know what companies experts on TV are associated with. What causes, what interests?
It's kind of troubling and confusing to hear an answer to a question like the answer Hillary gave about prayer.
And what is more, the Constitution specifically bars applying a religious test for offices, so why do religious questions arise so often in the debates and interviews????? What relevance do religious answers have if we are, under the Constitution, not supposed to consider a person's religion when voting???
I'd like some answers to these questions. Thank you.
This is not concerning any particular candidate. In fact, these kinds of unmentioned relationships with businesses, churches, etc. should be revealed in any television interview.
Why not? If the relationship could be relevant and is not religious, why not? It would help viewers to understand what is being said and why.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Knocked down, like Democracy in Flint.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)I'm saying this as a Sanders supporter - you're making something out of nothing
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Silly season.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)they don't want someone fumbling around trying to think of a response on live tv. A heads up regarding the question seems like an acceptable idea.