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This is propaganda': Fox News' Maria Bartiromo slammed for 'softball' Trump interview

Following Sunday morning's Fox News interview with Donald Trump – his first since the election – anchor Maria Bartiromo faced criticism for not challenging the president on his unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud. 

"Let's be clear," CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter tweeted. "Maria Bartiromo is not interviewing the President (right now). She is providing him a free platform to feed his base talking points uncontested. ... This is propaganda." 

USA TODAY has reached out to Fox News for comment. 

In the 46-minute phone interview, Trump continued to protest the election but provided no proof – and would not say when he might drop election lawsuits and challenges that have met nothing but defeat.

Bartiromo began their call by asking Trump to back up his claims of election fraud. A steady stream of judges and election officials across the country, including Republicans, have declared the elections fairly run and criticized Trump's legal team for filing specious complaints.

"Mr. President, you've said many times that this election was rigged, that there was much fraud, and the facts are on your side," she said. "Let's start there. Please go through the facts. Characterize what took place." 

 

Trump repeated unverified claims that the election was "rigged," and told Bartiromo his complaints might last past the Dec. 14 vote of the Electoral College and even the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

"My mind will not change in six months," he said. 

Though Bartiromo asked Trump to provide evidence "to enable you to prove this in court," some analysts took issue with her not calling him on already-disputed claims. Judges have shot down lawsuits and election challenges in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada and Georgia, citing a lack of "specific allegations and then proof."

"This was not hardball. It wasn't even softball. It was t-ball," CNN Reliable Sources anchor Brian Stelter said on air Sunday morning. CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy later called Bartiromo a "propagandist," likening her to conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones.

Journalist Yashar Ali, a contributor to New York Magazine and HuffPost, remarked on Twitter that the interview was "filled with so many lies and so much misinformation. Probably more than any interview during his presidency."

He noted that Bartiromo "let him go unchecked on America’s number one cable network. It’s practically a monologue."

"Trump is lying about the election on Fox Business and Maria Bartiromo is letting him lie," wrote MSNBC senior producer Kyle Griffin. 

"Maria Bartiromo went from being the first journalist to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock exchange to one of the last notable TV hosts still indulging Trump in his conspiracy theories to overturn the election," wrote Business Insider politics reporter Jake Lahut. 

But some right-leaning commentators spoke out in support of the anchor.

Ann-Marie Murrell and Morgan Brittany, co-hosts of the conservative web TV talk show and news site PolitiChicks.com, tweeted that "@MariaBartiromo is receiving wrath for letting the (actual) President of the United States appear on her show to speak the truth. If they can silence @realDonaldTrump like this, imagine what they're planning for the rest of us if their evil plans succeed."

Contributing: David Jackson and Kim Willis, USA TODAY

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CNN IBN journalist gets roasted for soft ball interview with Rahul Gandhi

 

14 December, 2017

 

 

 

About a year back the India Today managed to the interview of Congress President Sonia Gandhi and during the buildup, it was advertised as the “biggest interview of the decade”. After the interview conducted by controversial journalist Rajdeep Sardesai aired, it was soon re branded by social media users as The fixed interview of the decade, primarily for its softball nature.

Yesterday, CNN News18 started creating a similar build-up to an interview of Congress President elect Rahul Gandhi:

#EXCLUSIVE | Standby for the BIGGEST political interview this election season: Rahul Gandhi’s (@officeofrg) 1st interview to @_pallavighosh, after Gujarat poll campaign, only on CNN-News18 | #ElectionsWithNews18 | #RahulOnNews18pic.twitter.com/B99RDblUzo

— News18 (@CNNnews18) December 13, 2017

Considering the fact that the interview was being conducted after the Gujarat poll campaign, one felt that, CNN News18 would do justice to journalism and pose tough questions to Rahul Gandhi, like asking as to why did he lie multiple times during the election campaign. Rahul’s lies were so widespread that even Tata Motors (which was at the receiving end of the one such lie) had to come out with a statement debunking them.

Possibly one of the first signs that the interview would contain no firebrand content was the fact that it was being conducted by Journalist Pallavi Ghosh. Pallavi has attained notoriety on twitter for being a ‘fan’ of the Gandhis, if one goes by these tweets:

Almost predictably this is what happened, and the interview whose clip was also shared by the Congress, saw Pallavi asking Rahul soft questions and at one point even expressed her desire to meet Rahul Gandhi’s dog Pidi (Video via @LOLiyapa):

The tone and tenor of the interview gave out a feeling that it was more of a PR platform for Rahul Gandhi than a means to make him answer some tough questions.

Social Media users as a result weren’t happy and decided to roast Pallavi for her approach:

When jokes write themselves https://t.co/CGkYrJqVjS

— Computerman (@rajivji019) December 13, 2017

When your mouth is on on floor .. and tongue at boots … all you can see is #Pidi

They are not in awe of #Pappu .. they are in awe of #Pidi

Well done @_pallavighosh for the expose pic.twitter.com/OaEO6ISdV4

— travelबाबा (@rkgeemail) December 14, 2017

Such an interview raises the question as to whether journalists and media houses are more interested in currying favour with the political establishment even though it means committing a grave travesty of journalism.

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