Posted on 10/12/2022 3:33:55 PM PDT by conservative98
NBC News journalist Dasha Burns’s Tuesday report on Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman’s use of closed captioning that aided his interview with Burns was immediately counteracted and framed as speculative by the network following the report’s debut on NBC News’s nightly evening news.
The scathing report by Burns, an employee of NBC News for over six years, went unsupported by her network after she conducted an interview with the Pennsylvania Democrat which highlighted Fetterman’s need for closed captioning to understand the questions Burns asked.
Fetterman had a stroke in May and has not fully recovered. He appears to still struggle with auditory processing five months later.
On Wednesday morning, Burns appeared on NBC’s News morning show Today with Savannah Guthrie to speak about her interview with Fetterman. After Burns’ report, Guthrie’s followup question cast doubt on Burns’s reporting by suggesting Burns’s interview experience was an outlier among many others with the candidate.
“Since then, other journalists who also dealt with Fetterman came forward and said they had a different experience,” Guthrie charged Burns.
Burns defended her interview with Fetterman by revealing the candidate’s first live, IN-PERSON interview was with Burns and not over a remote video conference. Fetterman could use the crutch without much notice during remote interviews with reporters.
“We can only report our own [interview],” Burns justified her report. “According to the campaign itself, our team was the first to be in the room with Fetterman for an interview rather than via remote video conference.”
Burns added her entire interview team noticed that without closed captaining, Fetterman was unable properly process the conversation. “Myself, my producer, and our crew did find that small talk before that captioning was difficult because of the auditory processing issues I mentioned,” she said.
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It sounds like maybe his hearing was affected. I can’t speak about his cognitive abilities, but that setup sounds like something I would need if I were in his shoes. I have not had a stroke, but I am hearing impaired enough where, if I didn’t have hearing aids, I would need something like that.
She might as well report she saw a miracle to David Hume.
a journalist..actually doing what journalists are supposed to do which is report the truth.
How times changed.
I just want to add, I hope she likes the hammering she’s gonna get from her colleagues for pointing out the obvious.
During the interview Fetterman actually said that he needs captioning.
Will the senate set him up with closed caption system for gummit binez if PA sends him to represent them in DC?
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The interview was broadcast on NBC Nightly News. It was what it was. He showed her and the viewers his screen which had some kind of signal on it, but we didn’t get to see what he was looking at again. My guess is he had pretyped answers available to pull up as needed. The guy is let’s face it, useless for meaningful communication.
He didn’t answer appropriately even when it was on the screen.
Being hearing impaired isn’t a big deal, but that’s not the only problem.
Fetterman’s affect strongly reminds me of Eugene Levy’s damaged, washed up folksinger in A MIGHTY WIND.
Also looks like the report is under attack over newsfeeds as bad reporting / bias reporting.
Unreal.
-PJ
Gee. Look at how even their TV interview cloaks and hides his neck growth from not only identification, but then colors in the background black color with his black shirt and black collar and black neckerchief!
Literally, only his head is sticking out from the shadows and glare!
In fairness to Fetterman, wouldn’t a stroke patient work well with a senile president?
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