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CJR / Bill Grueskin / Jul 29, 2020
“Softball questions aren’t considered a standard part of the journalistic canon. Journalists lionize reporters like Chris Wallace’s father, Mike, who once asked the Ayatollah Khomeini how he felt about being called a lunatic…But occasionally, a hard question puts the president — or someone of his ego — on the defensive, while the gentle one prods him to be more candid than he intended.”
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