Showing posts with label interviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interviews. Show all posts

Is James Naughtie the most long-winded interviewer in broadcasting history?

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At one point during one of this morning's interviews on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, I began wondering whether James Naughtie wo...
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What's 'news' about Gordon Brown not answering a question?

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The silly season doesn’t get much sillier than when the leading story on all of tonight’s leading news programmes on radio and television ...

Mrs Clinton's gem for interview collectors

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A number of previous posts have featured classic interviews with top politicians, including • A labour leader with no interest in spin • A p...
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Televised interviews and political communication

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If you’re a new reader of this blog and are interested in the problems associated with the growing importance of interviews as the major for...

No flies on Obama!

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After recent posts about how British politicians behave in interviews, I couldn't help being impressed by President Obama's cool and...

POLITICIAN ANSWERS A QUESTION: an exception that proves the rule

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Given previous posts about politicians not answering interviewers' questions (on which, see below for list of posts) I was delighted las...

Interview techniques, politicians and how we judge them

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It’s almost impossible to watch or listen to a media interview without coming to a positive or negative impression of the person who is be...
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Lord Mandelspin strikes again

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The bloggers' verdict on this morning's interview of Peter Mandelson by Andrew Marr seems to be that the former ran rings around the...

'Pre-delicate hitches' from Brown as he avoids answering a question about the Queen

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I’ve already posted some observations about ‘pre-delicate hitches’ coming out of the mouths of Gordon Brown and Hillary Clinton . The gener...

Why has Gordon Brown become a regular on the Today programme?

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It used to be the case that the prime ministers only went on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme during general elections (when they appeared in ...
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Disputing the meaning of applause

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In an interview broadcast yesterday about a meeting with his constituents in Bracknell, Andrew MacKay made much of the fact that three quart...

The liveliest Question Time ever?

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Not long after yesterday's post suggesting that interviews with politicians would be much livelier if they were conducted in front of an...

Why it's so easy for politicians not to answer interviewers' questions - and what should be done about it

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I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d once heard the late Robin Day complaining that the news interview had been ‘hijacked’ by politicians...
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Did the media ignore Hannan because they think speeches are 'bad television'?

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A knock-on effect of Daniel Hannan’s speech is that this blog has experienced a ten times increase in the number of hits since starting to p...