| The only way Michele Bachmann would agree to do an interview in the City Pages was if the questions were submitted to her in writing, in advance.
This guarantees that there will be no candor, intentional or unintentional. (When I worked at the Dump Bachmann blog, I was offered the same "questions in advance" interview deal by Al Franken's campaign manager. I turned it down, because it's no journalistic coup, and because there's no real point in scoring a "questions submitted in advance" interview with a politician. It has the same journalistic value as receiving a written response to a letter to your congressman.)
I think I do understand this. The CP wants to sell this "interview" as a big score. It's not, but they want to sell it that way. And the CP understood some time ago that Bachmann was hot copy. So they want to pretend that they've got this "interview" that no one else got, this big coup--so they gave her this "yeah, yeah, sure, we'll submit the questions to you in advance so you won't be caught offguard like when Sarah Palin was doing the Katie Couric thing."
So it's not really an interview at all, you see. It's the CP trying to pretend it's an interview ("the complete interview", they call it in the title. And it's a way for Bachmann to get unchallenged spin into the CP, in the guise of an interview. Anyway: here is the link, if you wish to read it.
http://www.citypages.com/2009-... |
