Opinion: President Trump guest-hosts 'Hannity'
Fox News' Sean Hannity hosts his show from the floor of a campaign rally in Cape Girardeau, Mo., on Nov. 5, 2018. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 26 at 1:07 PM By the end of his chat on Thursday night with President Trump, Fox News host Sean Hannity showed some self-awareness of the propaganda that he’d anchored for the better part of an hour. “All right, Mr.
By the count of the Erik Wemple Blog — based on a Nexis transcript of the Hannity-Trump discussion — the president’s responses averaged just south of 200 words — a luxury for any interviewee. Consider that news anchors average between 150 and 175 words per minute, which means Trump’s average response to Hannity’s “questions” clocked in at a pace that effected something of a cross between Interview Trump and Campaign Rally Trump.
For context, consider the time that former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly interviewed President Barack Obama in advance of the Super Bowl in February 2014. According to a Nexis transcript of a portion of the interview that later aired on “The O’Reilly Factor,” Obama averaged about 34 words per response. No monologues allowed, even for a president who was famous for filibustering reporters.
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