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The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to wield more control over who questions the president. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has invited new, mostly friendly, journalists into the White House briefing room andin who is allowed there. The administration

with The Associated Press over access to the Oval Office.When he worked as a news executive at CNN and NBC News, Mark Whitaker said he would discuss interviews with the White House involving certain journalists, but “the idea of giving a choice is not something I ever saw.” he said.Andrew Heyward, a former CBS News president, said he understands the principle of not ceding the decision of who asks the questions, “but as a practical matter, it’s often a negotiation.” Heyward stressed he had no inside information about what happened with ABC News this week.

In some cases, the importance of landing an interview ahead of a competitor can take precedence over the principle of controlling who does the asking. Its value is illustrated in the ratings: nearly 4 million people watched Moran’s interview with Trump on Tuesday, the largest audience of anything on television that night, the Nielsen company said.There was even more at stake during the “Wild West” days of television networks competing for big celebrity interviews, primarily at the end of the last century.

“Shamefully, the interviewee was in the driver’s seat whenever it came to the flavor-of-the-week or the most sought-after new interview,” said veteran broadcast journalist Connie Chung. “It was one of the reasons why I despised getting the so-called ‘get.’ It was a matter of who could grovel better.”

On many of those occasions, news organizations didn’t always speak with one voice; Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters often competed fiercely for the same interviews when they both worked at ABC News. In 2001, Chung recalled that Walters was designated by ABC to interview scandal-scarred U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, but the congressman’s representative said they were going to another network unless Chung did the story. Chung got the interview.“I had so much fun playing with him, and having him back means a lot,” he said.

The three episodes dropping Tuesday gel to form what’s basically a 2 1/2 hour movie, with Cassian stuck among rival rebel factions, Bix living in a farming community amid an imperial crackdown, and Mon Mothma having to play the patrician matriarch at her daughter’s wedding, before all three are pulled in new directions.The entire series has been planned in those kinds of clusters.

“We really think of it that we made eight movies in five years,” Gilroy said.If you’ve been pining to plant