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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Oh please, Andrew.
Farage brought off a major coup for GB News. A gripping 2 hours. BBC et al cannot compete with his style of objective journalism.
So what Farage didn't challenge Trump's claims of a rigged election? Farage is the interviewer not the Democrat candidate.
How do you justify "... in most people's eyes"?
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How on earth can it be objective journalism when an interviewee's lies are allowed to go unchallenged on multiple occasions? It was neither objective nor journalism by any stretch of the imagination.
I expect most people would want to see a politician called out when they repeat the same lie. I'm disappointed that your admiration of Farage might prevent you from wanting the same.
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Originally Posted by Chris
I have observed that Andrew has a tendency to assume “most people” agree with whatever he thinks about something. His posts on here tend to suggest that anyway.
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I don't think I've ever felt the need to state "most people" before so you're possibly confusing me with another poster.
But I think it's fair to assume that a politician repeating a lie on multiple occasions should be expected to be called out by an interviewer and most people would expect this to happen.
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Originally Posted by Chris
All that said, your claim that Farage is producing objective journalism is absurd, as is your suggestion that for an interviewer to adopt a politically contrary position for the purposes of debate means they might as well be a member of the rival political party. Nigel Farage makes good TV because he’s opinionated, but he doesn’t make good political interviews when his views are fairly well aligned with the person he’s interviewing, because he isn’t a journalist and he lacks the skill to probe, challenge or extract new insight from his subject.
If David Frost had approached his interviews with Richard Nixon in the manner you seem to approve of, the series would have been nothing more than the soft historical footnote Nixon’s team had desperately hoped for, rather than something so significant, Nixon sympathisers continue to try to play it down to this day.
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Agreed. Trump chose someone who would give him an easy ride and none easier than Farage. This interview would have been far better conducted by Andrew Neil.