News theater: Reporters rehearse questions in advance with White House Press Secretary

(NaturalNews) If you’ve ever seen a White House press conference, to the naked eye it looks a lot like a spontaneous evolution of questions and answers from intrepid reporters digging for answers from a press secretary who appears, at times, to be taken off guard by the queries.

But is it all that? One local Arizona reporter lucky enough to get selected to interview President Obama and visit with Press Secretary Jay Carney at his office digs in Washington, D.C., reported to her viewers that questions — and answers — are actually very often pre-ordained.

As reported by The Weekly Standard, the correspondent — from CBS affiliate KPHO in Phoenix — filed this on-air report:

“It was a very busy day. We started here shortly after 8 o’clock with a coffee with press secretary Jay Carney inside his office in the West Wing.

“And this was the off-the-record so we were able to ask him all about some of the preparation that he does on a regular basis for talking to the press in his daily press briefings. He showed us a very long list of items that he has to be well versed on every singlesingle day…

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