Philly loses radio host after Biden interview

It saddens me to report that it is true Andrea Lawful-Sanders, who previously hosted “The Source” on WURD 96.1 FM, is no longer working with the station after her interview with President Joe Biden.

- Yanina Carter

What raised concern was the questions that she asked were supplied by his team, making the interview look prescript. In an interview on CNN’s “First of All with Victor Blackwell,” Andrea revealed that she received eight questions from Biden’s team — and selected 4.

Sara Lomax, President and CEO of WURD Radio, posted a statement announcing that the station and radio host Andrea had “mutually agreed to part ways.” Lomax stated that she was not involved in negotiations for the interview. WURD issued a statement titled “Accountability, Access, and A Path Forward: Why Black Media Matters,” which stated that Lawful-Sanders negotiated the interview on her own without the knowledge of the radio station.

“As Pennsylvania’s only independent Black-owned talk radio station, WURD Radio has cultivated that trust with our audience over our 20-year history,” Lomax wrote. “This is something we take very seriously. Agreeing to a pre-determined set of questions jeopardizes that trust, and is not a practice that WURD Radio engages in or endorses as a matter of practice or official policy.”

She said the station was “not a mouthpiece for the Biden or any other administration.” But Andrea states she “never once felt pressured to ask certain questions” from Biden's campaign team. “I chose questions that were most important to the Black and brown communities we serve in Philadelphia,” she said. “Those questions proved to be exactly what Black and brown communities desired.”

According to the host of The Earl Ingram Show on WAUK in Waukesha, Wisconsin, he was also given questions from Biden’s team for his interview.