Journalists Kara Swisher, Rebecca Traister and other media figures and politicians called out NBC News reporter Dasha Burns’ “nonsense” treatment of Pennsylvania senatorial candidate John Fetterman after airing a recent interview Tuesday.
Fetterman, who will run against Dr. Mehmet Oz as the Democratic nominee in the upcoming Pennsylvania Senate race, gave his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke in May to Burns, sitting for “NBC Nightly News.” In the Tuesday evening segment, it was revealed that Fetterman required a closed captioning device for Burns’ questions due to ongoing auditory processing issues from the stroke.
Burns introduced her interview, which included questions about whether or not Fetterman was physically fit to take office following his medical scare, by first speaking with Lester Holt, saying that “in small talk — before the interview, without captioning — it wasn’t clear [Fetterman] was understanding our conversation.”