An anchor at KPHO in Phoenix mistakenly reported that :
President Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, receives questions from the press in advance of his daily press briefing. In fact, she said, the reporters often receive the answers in advance of the briefing, too.
Carney revealed that there is a very long list of items that he has to be well versed on every single day, but denied the news reporter’s claim and tweeted:
Briefings would be a lot easier if this (knowing questions ahead) were true! Rest assured, it is not.
Reporters and talk show hosts most often come to an interview with a list of questions. In most every case, the executive or spokesperson to be interviewed will not know these questions ahead of time. But media training allows you to plan the answers ahead of time.
Then, in order to get your messaging across, practice teaches you to bridge smoothly from the questions to your Ready answers.
Good answers will often prompt the interviewer to abandon his or her scripted questions in favor of questioning your answers. That is a worthy goal.