The Pennsylvania Democrat had to use a live transcription in his first on-air interview since having a stroke, but advocates feel NBC News focused too much on Fetterman’s condition.
that it was “Unlike any political interview I’ve ever done. Unlike any race I’ve ever covered.”
For advocates of people with permanent and temporary disabilities, the interview and the response leaned too much on Fetterman’s condition and whether he was up to the job. Disability activist Charis Hill told BuzzFeed News they were so upset at Burns’s questions and the editors’ framing of Fetterman’s responses — leaving in moments of silence that showed Fetterman reading, for example — that they couldn’t finish watching the interview. Hill called on NBC to apologize for “the overt discrimination they just put on air.”
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