On April 20, Politico posted a softball interview by Patrick Gavin with outgoing National Organization for Women (NOW), president Kim Gandy. There’s nothing wrong, of course, with having light interviews that may reveal a personal side of a public figure. Yet it’s frustrating that almost inevitably these interviews give a platform for misinformation that goes unchallenged.

For example, Gandy responds to a question about the one action she’d take as President by describing an executive order “prohibiting employment discrimination”: “My EO would require that every Cabinet department and agency, as well as federal contractors, establish a job evaluation, … Continue Reading