If he were given scripted questions, then he should share them with people.
I wonder if the producers were providing him with sample questions or questions others had asked.
There is probably far less of a conspiracy here than people are thinking.
If he were given scripted questions, then he should share them with people.
I wonder if the producers were providing him with sample questions or questions others had asked.
There is probably far less of a conspiracy here than people are thinking.
Precious Roy wrote:
I got to ask a question at a town hall for two senate candidates during the 2002 election cycle. The TV station hosting the event had everyone submit questions in advance. Then, they picked who they wanted to ask questions. Before we went on TV, the news director went over our questions with us to make sure we would be confident and clear when we went on the air. You cannot just have an open mic for these things. It turns into a train wreck with long speeches and rambling questions. The people who always get first in line for an open mic session are the ones who think that fluoride is a mind control agent.
Someone that knows how it works.
Naaah. It can't be. What's needed is another complex conspiracy.
dbags wrote:
markschultz30 wrote:
Of course.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/parkland-shooting-survivor-cnn-gave-scripted-questions-article-1.3835718Mark - why are you such a backwards as*hole?
Agreed. Only one side could use tragedy to their benefit.
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
oe67 wrote:
dbags wrote:
Mark - why are you such a backwards as*hole?
Wait--aren't all assholes backwards?
I want mine to be in the front!
This is pretty normal from my experience. I've had to represent our school district on live TV several times. Each time I was provided an outline of what questions they would ask in advance. They never told me what to answer, but there were some times where we would practice the question and my response in advance.
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
It's good to have scripted questions/answers. Basically, if you're CNN, you don't want this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520
We need more of this. Not less. And autotune.
In CNN's response it appears the father would not let him ask only one question without being able to give a long speech. CNN wanted him to ask one question because he was asking about more armed security at the school. In the town hall it appeared that some of the students had questions prepared and were asking 1 question without lead-in of any kind.
Now CNN is saying one of the shooting survivors is lying about being fed a question for the town hall meeting. CNN is beating up on a shooting victim. That's a no-no. The left's primary weapon right now is that the kids can not be criticized, so why can left criticize this guy?
Of course CNN fed Hillary questions before a Presidential debate so they have no credibility to call anyone a liar when accused of media manipulation.
As a follow up, CNN stood up for itself and released the email exchange showing they were only asking the student to read one question that he had submitted without the whole exchange. The student went on multiple programs and misrepresented this exchange.
This is no excuse for the Donna Brazile fiasco where she fed questions to the Democrats, but they're certainly in the right to stand up for themselves.
el hombre wrote:
As a follow up, CNN stood up for itself and released the email exchange showing they were only asking the student to read one question that he had submitted without the whole exchange. The student went on multiple programs and misrepresented this exchange.
This is no excuse for the Donna Brazile fiasco where she fed questions to the Democrats, but they're certainly in the right to stand up for themselves.
But if CNN can fight back against this kid, then the NRA can fight back against the other students, right?
DiscoGary wrote:
el hombre wrote:
As a follow up, CNN stood up for itself and released the email exchange showing they were only asking the student to read one question that he had submitted without the whole exchange. The student went on multiple programs and misrepresented this exchange.
This is no excuse for the Donna Brazile fiasco where she fed questions to the Democrats, but they're certainly in the right to stand up for themselves.
But if CNN can fight back against this kid, then the NRA can fight back against the other students, right?
You realize this kid (or his dad) doctored emails, right? CNN isn't "fighting back against this kid," they are just saying, "here's the real email exchange."
CNN can display communications that show they aren't lying, just as the NRA can communicate that they disagree with policy proposals.
oe67 wrote:
dbags wrote:
Mark - why are you such a backwards as*hole?
Wait--aren't all assholes backwards?
See, like any other example of a double negative, the backwards as*hole is actual the as*hole the spews sh*t forward. dbags is using the correct terminology.
oe67 wrote:
dbags wrote:
Mark - why are you such a backwards as*hole?
Wait--aren't all assholes backwards?
Well, we are all deuterstomes after all.
DiscoGary wrote:
Now CNN is saying one of the shooting survivors is lying about being fed a question for the town hall meeting. CNN is beating up on a shooting victim. That's a no-no. The left's primary weapon right now is that the kids can not be criticized, so why can left criticize this guy?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/02/23/cnns-drew-griffin-school-shooting-survivor-colton-haab-lying/Of course CNN fed Hillary questions before a Presidential debate so they have no credibility to call anyone a liar when accused of media manipulation.
It is intellectually dishonest to characterize Griffin’s saying that Trump’s tweet was a lie or that releasing the undoctored email exchange as “beating up on a shooting victim”. Be better.
udum wrote:
DiscoGary wrote:
But if CNN can fight back against this kid, then the NRA can fight back against the other students, right?
You realize this kid (or his dad) doctored emails, right? CNN isn't "fighting back against this kid," they are just saying, "here's the real email exchange."
in Gary's world anyone demonstrating facts is "attacking" the other person. He has Trump's disease
Anything to distract from the point that he (and Breitbart) fell for a bad story without verifying sources.
el hombre wrote:
Anything to distract from the point that he (and Breitbart) fell for a bad story without verifying sources.
Uh... CNN ignored the fact that the FBI failed, tho local police dept failed, 4 cops stood outside and refused to go in ... and chose to hold a town hall meeting where a lynch mob brow beat a Republican politician and a rep from the NRA.
It was CNN who was too busy using the crisis to score political points, who missed the real story.
Congrats on continuing to deflect from acknowledging that you shared a story that has been discredited by the facts.
What happened here is a good example of how liberals work.
They find a victim. Elevate them to sainthood, making them untouchable and beyond reproach, and then use them as a hammer to silence people they disagree with. Only an ogre would contradict a victim so quickly after blood has spilled, so we MUST listen to the kids blaming Republicans and the NRA. That's what decent adults are supposed to do, and CNN knows it and uses it.
The problem liberals have is that they've used up the credibility of most of their victim groups, so their old tricks aren't working as well as they used to. This slaughter of high school kids gave them a newly minted victim group that had ONE big problem coming out of the gate - the initial stories said Cruz was bullied. Uh-oh. That's means the students that were shot up included some of the bullies. Well that will put a tarnish on anyone's halo, so the MSM immediately dropped all talk of bullying and presented the students as saintly victims who could do no wrong.
Of course even bullies shouldn't be shot. I'm pointing out how the MSM keeps certain pieces of information from getting into the rat maze, so that you will follow their trail of crumbs to where they want you to go (and it's never to the cheese is it?) and hate who they want you to hate.
Then after hiding the bullying, word starts to come out about the FBI failure, oops, then the cop refusing to go in, oops, then the 4 cops not going in, oops. CNN was too busy wielding the students as a political gun control weapon to see what the real story was... the failure of the government to protect our children! That's not a story CNN wants to tell.
Has the truth penetrated the liberal media rat maze yet? You guys tell me.