Thanks Melissa. I kind of always assumed they are highly staged. And I guess that's why I don't watch them much.
But I did happen to catch the last 25 mins of Lawrence last night, where he followed up on a vax-hesitant guy -- and they got jabbed live on MSNBC at Walmart last night. So that was staged too. I do, however, believe that he *was* hesitant, and the bigger story is how he changed his mind. Kudos to his mom for joining in and getting jabbed too. On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 1:48 PM Melissa P <[email protected]> wrote: > I was able to attend the MSNBC town hall last week, held at Northern > Virginia Community College, Alexandria (where Dr. Jill Biden has taught for > several years). > > Televised town halls are completely staged. It makes perfect sense, of > course, when every minute of an hour of TV must be planned in advance. I'm > sure everyone here already knew it, but I can at least provide first-hand > confirmation. > > For example, I was not given an opportunity to ask a question. As we were > being signed in, those given blue wrist bands had been pre-selected to ask > a question, I later discovered. I was given a red wristband. > > None of us knew what the blue bands meant until the show started. In > fact, a non-picked person was on his way to the mic when he was shooed back > to his seat! > > I did get to say something to Lawrence O'Donnell afterward. When I told > him that I loved *Mr. Sterling* and mentioned the similarity between > Senator Sterling and Senator Manchin, he said: "I love hearing that!" > > It was also cool to hear President Biden, in the pre-taped interview that > was shown before the town hall, talk about the data I used to help produce. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPz3PeTZNa80VevaG27ayHcFDypAJNsNP60NqvbBrakknw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPz3PeTZNa80VevaG27ayHcFDypAJNsNP60NqvbBrakknw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Doug Eastick <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BoG-nvre0WxG4HoQvLPJdQJjVO0vMnWFgd%2BA0VGMLZ4HA%40mail.gmail.com.
