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		By: Erich Vieth		</title>
		<link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/14/when-politicians-refuse-to-answer-questions-report-it/comment-page-1/#comment-66937</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What followed was a back and forth in which Ratigan attempted to get Williams to answer the following: Does he &#034;accept racists and Nazis in the Tea Party?&#034; The conversation reached its climax and conclusion when Ratigan declared &#034;I don&#039;t want to continue with this, you&#039;re wasting valuable oxygen. Can we please cut off this man&#039;s microphone, he has no interest in answering my questions. Mark, a pleasure. Actually, not really a pleasure. It was offensive, you&#039;re offensive, your treatment of my show as a vehicle to spread your propaganda and ignore my question, offensive.&#034;
 

  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/dylan-ratigan-goes-off-on_n_483071.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/dylan-ra...&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What followed was a back and forth in which Ratigan attempted to get Williams to answer the following: Does he &quot;accept racists and Nazis in the Tea Party?&quot; The conversation reached its climax and conclusion when Ratigan declared &quot;I don&#039;t want to continue with this, you&#039;re wasting valuable oxygen. Can we please cut off this man&#039;s microphone, he has no interest in answering my questions. Mark, a pleasure. Actually, not really a pleasure. It was offensive, you&#039;re offensive, your treatment of my show as a vehicle to spread your propaganda and ignore my question, offensive.&quot;</p>
<p>  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/dylan-ratigan-goes-off-on_n_483071.html" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/dylan-ra" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/dylan-ra</a>&#8230; </p>
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		By: Sondra		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sondra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I remember when this first began - Dan Rather was interviewing then (I believe) vice-president Bush about Iran Contra - Bush did a side-step and Rather said &#034;Mr. Vice-President, with all due respect, you haven&#039;t answered the question&#034; or something similar. Bush again side-stepped. The next day, Rather apologized (and I knew it was all over) and then at some point there he was fired - am I remembering that part all right? But after that, news just changed and no one seems to remember that this happened or that it ever was any different - but it did used to be. It really did. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember when this first began &#8211; Dan Rather was interviewing then (I believe) vice-president Bush about Iran Contra &#8211; Bush did a side-step and Rather said &quot;Mr. Vice-President, with all due respect, you haven&#039;t answered the question&quot; or something similar. Bush again side-stepped. The next day, Rather apologized (and I knew it was all over) and then at some point there he was fired &#8211; am I remembering that part all right? But after that, news just changed and no one seems to remember that this happened or that it ever was any different &#8211; but it did used to be. It really did. </p>
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		By: Erich Vieth		</title>
		<link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/14/when-politicians-refuse-to-answer-questions-report-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15357</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Gregory to Hillary Clinton: So you&#039;re choosing not to answer that question. let me ask you another issue --
 
Hillary Clinton: No, I&#039;m -- no, wait a minute.
 

 
Isn&#039;t it wonderful what happens when reporters refuse to pretend that non-answers are answers? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/17/david-gregory-does-battle_n_77125.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This example happened on the Today Show. &lt;/a&gt;
 

 
We need a lot more of this aggressive reporting, in my opinion. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David Gregory to Hillary Clinton: So you&#039;re choosing not to answer that question. let me ask you another issue &#8212;</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton: No, I&#039;m &#8212; no, wait a minute.</p>
<p>Isn&#039;t it wonderful what happens when reporters refuse to pretend that non-answers are answers? <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/17/david-gregory-does-battle_n_77125.html" rel="nofollow">This example happened on the Today Show. </a></p>
<p>We need a lot more of this aggressive reporting, in my opinion. </p>
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		By: Woodrow Meeks		</title>
		<link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/14/when-politicians-refuse-to-answer-questions-report-it/comment-page-1/#comment-9790</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Woodrow Meeks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I once heard a politician state in an interview that if asked a question you are uncomfortable with to simply ignore it and answer the question you wished they had asked. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I once heard a politician state in an interview that if asked a question you are uncomfortable with to simply ignore it and answer the question you wished they had asked. </p>
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		By: grumpypilgrim		</title>
		<link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2006/06/14/when-politicians-refuse-to-answer-questions-report-it/comment-page-1/#comment-477</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[grumpypilgrim]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Erika makes a very intriguing suggestion.  Openly biased journalism, presumably covering a variety of biases, might actually achieve the goal of thorough journalism.  Of course, some politicians would cower from unfavorable questions by only granting interviews with favorably-biased jourmalists  -- as Dick Cheney does with Fox &#034;News&#034; -- but any politician who wanted to reach votors on the &#034;other side&#034; would need to buck up and take their punches.  Indeed, such hot questioning might actually attract a lot of viewers, making participation not only more appealing for candidates, but also better for advertisers.
 

 
In sum, I think Erika&#039;s suggestion is a good one.  At the very least, I don&#039;t see how it would be any worse than the pablum we get from journalists now, and it seems like it has the potential to be much better. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erika makes a very intriguing suggestion.  Openly biased journalism, presumably covering a variety of biases, might actually achieve the goal of thorough journalism.  Of course, some politicians would cower from unfavorable questions by only granting interviews with favorably-biased jourmalists  &#8212; as Dick Cheney does with Fox &quot;News&quot; &#8212; but any politician who wanted to reach votors on the &quot;other side&quot; would need to buck up and take their punches.  Indeed, such hot questioning might actually attract a lot of viewers, making participation not only more appealing for candidates, but also better for advertisers.</p>
<p>In sum, I think Erika&#039;s suggestion is a good one.  At the very least, I don&#039;t see how it would be any worse than the pablum we get from journalists now, and it seems like it has the potential to be much better. </p>
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