I wrote 57 articles and most of them had at least one interview. Now these weren’t hard hitting news articles, but if someone, anyone, gives you their time so you can produce an article then going out of your way to make them look bad is really nasty of you. If you want to make someone look bad, then do your homework and present facts, but don’t ambush them by giving an impression you are just doing an informative article. That’s bad manners at the least and criminal journalism at the worst. Now if you tell them in advance, I have XY and Z and if you want to answer those things then let’s talk. But then it is incumbent on you to present their answers without editing intended to make them look like they are saying something that they didn’t say or mean.
An entirely different set of rules apply when a liberal is interviewing a conservative. The primary purpose is to make the conservative look bad, and they will ambush or selectively edit as necessary.
An interview may take several hours and only a few carefully selected minutes will be aired. Anything that contradicts the media’s narrative that the conservative is an evil idiot will end up on the cutting room floor. Through the magic of selective editing, “Are you a crook? Absolutely not.” Becomes “Are you a crook? Absolutely.”
Whenever a conservative is being interviewed, they should make it a hard and fast condition of granting the interview that they receive a real time copy of the live video/audio feed and can use any of it that they want after any portion of the interview is first aired.