Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Ramaswamy Slams Liberal Debate Moderators: ‘This Should Be Joe Rogan"" video.

@gabepizza I'm 71 years old. I've watched that show and have been aware of it all my life. We only had 2 TV stations when I was growing up and my dad watched it all the time. When you have a program, whose platform is interviewing people, you can still cater those interviews so that they play to the biases of the host and writers. Any claims made, by the person being interviewed, or by how the host frames their questions, should be verified by the viewer, NOT by the host, who may or may not have their own ideas and allow the interview to reflect those ideas, and especially not by the person being interviewed. I can't believe that you'd blindly trust a host of ANY program. Listen to interview and then verify. Don't take what you've just heard as fact even if the host might imply that it is. Having said that, Meet the Press isn't that bad a show but to believe that the host can't manipulate an interview, to suit their agenda, is naive.
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@gabepizza Are you seriously saying that "Meet the Press" could NEVER have a biased host? Really? They're the perfect political outlet? LOL. I'm astounded that we would trust ANYONE in the media, without verifying what they say. No one is perfect. No one is totally honest and that would include the host and staff of "Meet the Press".
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@gabepizza " They are getting opinions from the person they are interviewing." In a perfect world, that would be true. However, a host can and has asked questions to suit their own agenda and refrain from asking the questions that they don't want the answers to. The really intelligent ones will make it seem legit and will even subtly change the subject if they don't like where it's going. They even have ways of asking questions in a way that puts the interviewee in a bad spot. Sort of like..."experts say that...." or "sources have informed us that....., in the hopes of cornering someone. That's why I say, always double check the information that's gathered in such an interview. It's not the obvious bias that fools you. It's the ones that are believable that can be the most dangerous. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
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