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FCC chair Brendan Carr claims media were ‘lied to’ over Stephen Colbert controversy
(www.theguardian.com)
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Meh, do it, lets see how these ghouls stand up to a grilling from Colbert. I'm sure they will be fine with risking that kind of negative press.
Part of the issue is that there's like 8 people running for that one position at this point, before the primaries.
What was the interview, like 10/20 minutes? Doesn't seem like a big drama, particularly when half the candidates will likely not want to risk the potential for hard questioning and looking like a moron.
And you think it's reasonable to devote 40-80 minutes of show time of a national comedy show to interviewing every candidate for a single state race?
It doesn't have to be the same episode, and if there is one outstanding candidate then yeah let's give him some time and allow the others to demonstrate their incompetence. It's hilarious watching bigoted arseholes try to justify the garbage ideas. There's no rule about treating them all the same or not having bias in interview strategy, just giving them the time.
You missed the important part where this is just one of thousands of races going on in the country. It's a comedy show, they're not going to spend an entire week doing interviews for one single race.