The American media loves the "gotcha game" where a reporter embarrasses a public official with a line of questioning. That pursuit has been in play since CBS White House Correspondent Dan Rather tortured President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s.   Throughout my career, I have asked very tough questions to the powerful in both parties, but gotcha wasn't my goal.  Simply put, I wanted to see how much the interview subject knew.  How accurately they could articulate their position.
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The American media loves the "gotcha game" where a reporter embarrasses a public official with a line of questioning. That pursuit has been in play since CBS White House Correspondent Dan Rather tortured President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s.
 
Throughout my career, I have asked very tough questions to the powerful in both parties, but gotcha wasn't my goal.  Simply put, I wanted to see how much the interview subject knew.  How accurately they could articulate their position.

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