Soledad O'Brien Is Speaking At My School - Question Suggestions?

[Aptastik]

ssia

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Ask her if she knows why CNN hired the racist Glenn Beck.

[brooklynite]

12. More broadly, why do the news networks...

...fill their primetime slots with pundits of -any- stripe who focus on their own opinions and perspectives, rather than presesenting, you know, news?

[hlthe2b]

2. well, I know you need to be respectful, so...

No


She was good on Katrina, but is back to be an abominable Bush* scribe now, from what little I've seen...

[hlthe2b]

3. Actually, now that I think about it...

Start by pointing to Dan Rather as being both critical of himself and his colleagues for their failure to ask the "tough questions" in the run up to the Iraq war. Given that the drum beats are starting in an almost identical manner for war with Iran, what does she perceive that SHE or her colleagues will do differently this time, to make sure the public has the facts behind the administrations' actions?

[back2basics909]

4. Has to be something like...

.."do you think the transition to talking heads, from real journalists is killing the media?"

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. What aren't offical government press releses ever questioned?

Why are they reported as fact?

[Up2Late]

6. Ask her what she thinks is more important as a "news" person, being cute and perky or...

...being smart and asking smart questions while being tough with the person she is interviewing?

[no_hypocrisy]

7. To what does a journalist have his or her first duty: the truth or his/her employer?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Although I am usually well-mannered, I think we are beyond manners. I would ask her

how much she gets paid to mislead the American people.

[Ian David]

9. Yes, do THIS to her...

Ask her four or five loaded questions in rapid succession, only give her time to answer one or two of them, and then tell her that "Some people say" that she and Katie Couric and that Meredith woman use THAT tactic on Democrats, but not Republicks.

I noticed it particularly when KKKatie interviewed Kerry and Cheney.

[Vinnie From Indy]

11. And then proclaim that you aren't gonna stand there and listen to her bad mouth

The United States of America and stomp away from the microphone loudly humming Glory Glory Hallelujah.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. "Does the fact that so many sexy newsbabes

are right-wing shills prove that there is no god?"

[Spazito]

13. Ask her when CNN made the decision to become the equivalent

of Faux light or you could ask her this:

Polls show the American public no longer trust the media to tell the truth. This was not always the case as the American Public implicitly trusted Edward R Murrow. What has changed to make the media less trustworthy?

[AX10]

14. Why does CNN continue to mimic Fox "News"?