Host Loses Job After Admitting Prearranged Biden Interview

(DailyVantage.com) – A radio host in Philadelphia has lost her job after the station fired her for conceding to a White House request that she use only the questions they had pre-supplied to her for an interview that aired last week.

WURD is a black-owned station. President Sara Lomax described the parting as “mutual,” and said that her station is “not a mouthpiece” for President Joe Biden or any other political administration.

It was clearly not an amicable departure. Lomax said that host Lawful-Sanders arranged the interview and its conditions “without knowledge, consultation, or collaboration” with the station’s management. Using questions supplied by the White House violates the station’s independent journalistic practices, the station president said, and breaks the trust between listeners and the station. Without those standards, the audience can’t be sure WURD will hold elected officials to account impartially, she said.

During an interview on CNN last weekend, former host Andrea Lawful-Sanders said that the Biden camp sent her eight questions ahead of time. She said she approved four of them and used them during her interview with Biden. That interview was the first time he spoke to journalists after his disaster of a debate with opponent Donald Trump on June 27. During that debate, Biden mumbled, was frequently incoherent, and seemed at times dazed and unaware of where he was.

The questions Lawful-Sanders asked during the interview were about the president’s accomplishments, how he was faring in the campaign in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and how he would respond to any prospective voter who was planning to sit election day out. She also asked about his debate performance.

Somewhat oddly, station president Lomax said “black voices” were being “delegitimized” in the current media landscape, and seemed to imply that the recent incident had something to do with that. How those concepts might be connected is not clear.

Something similar happened at a radio station in Wisconsin where host Earl Ingram admitted to the media that the Biden White House gave him five questions ahead of his conversation with the president.