Much has been made, from both sides of the political aisle, about the reporting done by NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns during her interview with Senate candidate John Fetterman (D-PA). 1210 WPHT afternoon host Rich Zeoli made his comments known Thursday.
Fetterman suffered a stroke in May of this year, and has dealt with “audio processing issues”, which required him to utilize closed captioning during his interview with Burns.
During her report, Burns said before closed captioning was used, it seemed as if Fetterman wasn’t able to understand her while the two conversed before the interview.
Zeoli said criticism of Burns is unwarranted.
“The NBC reporter is now coming under fire for simply doing her job and asking Fetterman questions one-on-one. She’s now being criticized for her observations on John Fetterman. Because he’s a Democrat. And because he’s a Democrat, this reporter can’t make observations about how he’s doing. Oh no, no, no. That’s media outrage. How dare you? How dare you suggest that a report could report back on the health status of a candidate who refuses to release his medical records,” Zeoli sarcastically said.
