It is disappointing that some FR posters are not able to see that the question was a gottcha, designed to make the interviewee look wrong anyway the question was answered. Those questions always make the person being questioned look awkward because they must be polite and they are handicapped by knowing that their response will be quoted in misleading partial words.
I’m sure that there is not enough time to formulate & rehearse answers in advance to gottcha questions at a time when there is real time change & evolution in the course of the viral outbreak resulting in fine tuning of the Country’s response.
When people who are trying to be truthful are pushed beyond what they can honestly say into making statements about a future they can have guesses about but where no one knows with certainty, it is a perversion of journalism.
It is a purposeful distortion of reality that weaponizes people’s desire to know what can’t be known into a scapegoating of the interviewee by redirecting the audience frustration and anxiety toward the interviewee. The honest interviewer would acknowledge that no one knows but experts have the most informed opinion and that is the best anyone can do.
An excellent response, consise,intelligent and well reasoned.
Using kinder words than I would have used you truthfully said the media is made up mostly of self serving scumbags.
Your response was outstanding and to the point. I’d add MM was rude, constantly interrupting, and acted like the hack she is.
Exactly. Great post. It was either dodge the question or cause more panic. The interviewer wins no matter what.
It's all a game.