{"id":2290403,"date":"2024-07-08T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philadelphia-radio-host-resigns-after-admitting-she-used-campaigns-questions-in-biden-interview-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:02:19","slug":"philadelphia-radio-host-resigns-after-admitting-she-used-campaigns-questions-in-biden-interview-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philadelphia-radio-host-resigns-after-admitting-she-used-campaigns-questions-in-biden-interview-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia radio host resigns after admitting she used campaign\u2019s questions in Biden interview &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphiladelphia-radio-host-resigns-after-admitting-she-used-campaigns-questions-in-biden-interview-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2290403&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Controversy surrounding the president&#8217;s \u2062actions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-fbi-agent-on-fbi-christopher-wray-hearing\/\" title=\"Ex-FBI Agent on Wray Hearing\">radio \u2063host<\/a>, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, resigned after admitting to using\u2062 prewritten questions from President Joe\u200d Biden&#8217;s campaign in an\u2064 interview. This caused WURD Radio, where she worked, to part ways with her\u2062 immediately. Lawful-Sanders stated that she accepted the resignation and thanked her audience for their\u200c support. \u2062The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-emerges-as-dividing-line-for-dems-in-pennsylvania-senate-primary\/\" title=\"Biden Emerges as Dividing Line for Dems in Pennsylvania Senate Primary\">incident raised concerns<\/a> about journalistic integrity and the independence of media \u2062outlets. \u200bSara Lomax, the president \u2064of \u2063WURD, emphasized\u2062 the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riverside-county-sheriff-touches-on-governor-newsoms-2024-gun-laws\/\" title=\"Sheriff discusses Newsom&#039;s 2024 gun laws\">upholding journalistic ethics<\/a> and independence. She called on mainstream media to\u2063 reflect\u2064 on their practices to regain the trust \u2062of the public.\u2063 The controversy highlights the\u2064 ongoing debate about media\u200d bias and political influence in journalism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Philadelphia radio host resigns after admitting she used campaign\u2019s questions in Biden interview<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/rokeefe\/\">Ross O&#8217;Keefe<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-08T08:58:19-04:00\">July 8, 2024 8:58 am<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1697135\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Philadelphia<\/a> radio station host has \u201cmutually agreed to part ways\u201d with her employer after she accepted prewritten questions from President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/wurdradio.com\/2024\/07\/07\/accountability-access-and-a-path-forward-why-black-media-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according<\/a> to WURD President Sara Lomax.<\/p>\n<p>Host Andrea Lawful-Sanders\u2019s actions stirred controversy as Biden faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3071224\/democrats-return-capitol-hill-biden-withdrawal-jeopardy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>accusations<\/a> across the political spectrum of age-related problems and the White House has sought to cover it up with advanced planning and restricted interviews. The interview was Biden\u2019s first following the debate on June 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radio-station-parts-ways-with-andrea-lawful-sanders-after-she-exposes-biden-admits-wh-influenced-questions\/\" title=\"Radio Station &#039;Parts Ways&#039; with Andrea Lawful-Sanders After She Exposes Biden, Admits WH Influenced Questions\">interview featured pre-determined questions provided<\/a> by the White House, which violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners,\u201d Lomax said in a statement. \u201cAs a result, Ms. Lawful-Sanders and WURD Radio have mutually agreed to part ways, effective immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post captioned, \u201cThe time has come for me to move on\u2026,\u201d Lawful-Sanders said she tendered her resignation on Saturday. \u201cIt was accepted,\u201d she said of her resignation. \u201cI most sincerely wanted to thank the listening audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Lawful-Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/06\/politics\/biden-radio-interview-questions\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told CNN\u2019s Victor Blackwell on <em>First of All<\/em><\/a> that Biden\u2019s team sent her several questions and she chose four of them to ask the president. Lawful-Sanders arranged and negotiated the interview independently of WURD, a black-owned talk radio station.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, accepting <a href=\"https:\/\/ethics.journalists.org\/topics\/interviewing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>questions<\/a> provided to journalists from campaigns or political candidates is a bad journalistic practice. It can make it more difficult for a journalist to obtain unscripted answers from an interviewee rather than off-the-cuff responses, which may be more genuine.<\/p>\n<p>Lomax insisted that \u201cWURD Radio is not a mouthpiece for the Biden or any other Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternally, we will commit to reviewing our policies, procedures, and practices to reinforce WURD\u2019s independence and trust with our listeners. But mainstream media should do its own introspection to explore how they have lost the trust of so many Americans, Black Americans chief among them,\u201d Lomax said.<\/p>\n<p>As the Biden campaign faces other accusations of scripting the president\u2019s actions, such as its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/07\/biden-staff-events-prepare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>photo preparation<\/a> of a precise path to a podium, Lawful-Sanders\u2019s predetermined questions added to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having an opportunity to think about his responses in advance, Biden slipped up during the interview, saying, \u201cI\u2019m proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman to serve with a black president, proud to have been involved with the first black woman on the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said the campaign does \u201cnot condition interviews on acceptance of these questions, and hosts are always free to ask the questions they think will best inform their listeners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign said it will not suggest questions for future interviews.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden will likely face more calls to step down this week as congressional Democrats meet in the House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>If he steps down, he\u2019ll be the first president since former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 to decide not to run for reelection.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1697135\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1697135\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia radio host has resigned after admitting to using prewritten questions from President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign in an interview. The host, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, and her employer, WURD Radio, have mutually agreed to part ways due to this violation of their practice of remaining an independent media outlet. Lawful-Sanders accepted several questions from Biden&#8217;s team and chose four to ask the president during the interview. This incident has raised concerns about the White House&#8217;s efforts to control Biden&#8217;s interactions with the media. Lawful-Sanders has resigned and thanked her audience for their support. The Biden campaign has denied conditioning interviews on accepting prewritten questions and stated that hosts are free to ask their own questions. The incident has sparked further calls for Biden to step down as president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2290404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/joe-biden-philadelphia.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34200,5522,34123,4975,32076],"class_list":["post-2290403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden-interview","tag-philadelphia","tag-radio-host","tag-resigns","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/joe-biden-philadelphia.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}