YouTube or ABC? Internet Star's Question the Same as Walters

Scott Whitlock | January 23, 2015
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[See NewsBusters for more.] All three networks on Friday morning promoted Barack Obama's "interesting," "unconventional" interviews with YouTube personalities, including one who is famous for taking a bath in milk and Fruit Loops.  Good Morning America journalist Amy Robach cheered the President for reaching "people who might not otherwise have heard what he had to say."  Yet, ABC's hosts didn't point out that one of the questions, by a 19-year-old fashion blogger, was nearly identical to one by veteran journalist Barbara Walters. YouTube's Bethany Mota queried, "If you had any superpower what would it be?" On December 23, 2011, Walters asked Obama, "If you were a super hero and you could have one super power, what would it be?"

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