A radio station in Philadelphia and one of its hosts, who admitted to receiving questions in advance for an interview with President Joe Biden, have decided to go their separate ways, according to multiple reports.
Sara M. Lomax, the President and CEO of WURD Radio, made an announcement on the station’s website regarding the departure of host Andrea Lawful-Sanders saying that they “mutually agreed to part ways.” Lawful-Sanders disclosed during a CNN interview on Saturday that she posed four questions to the president, which had been provided to her in advance by Biden’s team.
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“The questions were sent to me for approval, I approved of them,” Lawful-Sanders said. She added, “I got several questions. Eight of them. And the four that were chosen were the ones that I approved.”In a post on the WURD website titled “Accountability, Access, and A Path Forward: Why Black Media Matters,” Lomax stated that the interview with Biden was “arranged and negotiated independently” by Lawful-Sanders, without the knowledge of the station’s management.
“WURD Radio remains an independent voice that our audience can trust will hold elected officials accountable,” Lomax wrote. “As Pennsylvania’s only independent Black-owned talk radio station, WURD Radio has cultivated that trust with our audience over our 20-year history. This is something we take very seriously. Agreeing to a pre-determined set of questions jeopardizes that trust and is not a practice that WURD Radio engages in or endorses as a matter of practice or official policy.”
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Lomax added, “WURD Radio is not a mouthpiece for the Biden or any other Administration.”
