Wisconsin Radio Show Says It Edited Biden Interview at Campaign’s Request

“The Earl Ingram Show” cut two segments from an interview with the president that aired on July 4.

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Earl Ingram, a radio host in Wisconsin, recorded an interview with President Biden on July 3. Mr. Ingram has said the Biden campaign fed him questions before the taping.

A Wisconsin radio network said Thursday that it edited a recent interview with President Biden at the request of his campaign, a choice it said did not meet listeners’ expectations for journalistic standards.

Civic Media said it became aware of the changes after the host of “The Earl Ingram Show” revealed that the campaign had given him a list of questions to ask the president during the interview, which was taped on July 3 and aired the following day.

In a statement, the company said that it learned on Monday that “immediately after the phone interview was recorded, the Biden campaign called and asked for two edits to the recording before it aired.” The company, which operates 20 progressive radio stations throughout Wisconsin, said it immediately began investigating the matter “given the gravity of the current political movement.”

Lauren Hitt, a Biden campaign spokeswoman, did not directly respond to questions about the edits or whether it had asked other programs to alter interviews with the president after the fact. In a statement, Ms. Hitt said that “hosts have always been free to ask the questions and air the segments they think will best inform their listeners.”

In addition to Mr. Ingram, several other hosts and producers of radio programs told The New York Times that they had used prescreened questions or talking points from the campaign before their own interviews with Mr. Biden. Last week, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, a host at WURD in Philadelphia, resigned after acknowledging that she was given questions by the campaign before an interview.

Four radio hosts reached by The Times on Thursday said they had not received requests from the Biden campaign to make changes to their interviews with the president after recording. “No revisions were requested,” said Jessica Williams, who interviewed the president for her afternoon show in Charlotte, N.C., in early March.

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