Only the most naive don’t believe this has been a common political practive for as long as press conferences and townhall meetings have been going on. The other side of the coin is a planted question by the opposition.
“Only the most naive don’t believe this has been a common political practive for as long as press conferences and townhall meetings have been going on. The other side of the coin is a planted question by the opposition.”
I agree. I was Public Relations Coordinator for The Computer Museum in Boston (now merged into the Museum of Science in Boston) when Bill Gates went there to donate $100,000 in money and equipment to the Museum. His schedule was thoroughly planned, i.e., leave Cambridge at, say (I forget exactly) 11:38 and arrive at The Computer Museum at 12:14. Go upstairs to the Museum at 12: 21, etc., etc. Anyway, it was arranged that three children would be in the audience. I think they asked scripted questions, although my memory may be failing me there. At one point he reached out to the children and all the photographers took pictures of it. In the next few days I logged in over 100 photos of Bill Gates reaching out to children.
Of course these events are scripted down to the last detail.