Former ESPN host Sage Steele says her questions for interviewing Joe Biden were ... trends now
A former ESPN host who interviewed Joe Biden in 2021 is now saying the entire interview was 'scripted to the word' by network executives and that she was forbidden from asking follow-ups.
Sage Steele, who formerly hosted ESPN's SportsCenter and worked for the network for 16 years, revealed her bosses at the time of the interview carefully crafted each of her questions.
She claims she was handed a script by her ESPN boss and was threatened not to drift from what the executives had written for her to say.
'I was told, ‘You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script,'' she told Fox News.
'To the word. Every single question was scripted, gone over dozens of times by many editors and executives,' she continued. 'I was on script and was told not to deviate.'
Former ESPN host Sage Steele (Left) claimed in a recent Fox News report that her bosses carefully crafted a script for her to follow during her 2021 interview with President Joe Biden. She says she was told not to deviate at all from the script and read it 'to the word'
Steele later left ESPN after a legal battle in which she alleged the network infringed on her First Amendment protections
'It was very much ‘This is what you will ask. This is how you will say it. No follow-ups.''
'This went up to the fourth floor, as we said, where all the bosses, the top executives, the decision makers are, the president of our company, the CEO, where they all worked,' she continued.
Though Steele is
