The Media Interview

Larry King gave a good demonstration last night of what not to do as a guest. He was on Anderson Cooper 360, being interviewed by John King about Dr. Jan Adams walking off the Larry King Live show. Larry King was constantly looking away from his interviewer and at the camera. Breaking eye contact in [...]

The plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West’s mother the day before she died, walked off CNN’s “Larry King Live” during an interview tonight. Larry King opened the hour by saying that it wasn’t clear if Dr. Jan Adams would appear as promised. King said that West’s family had formally asked Adams not to go [...]

Perhaps for halloween I’ll go dressed as a “famous interviewer,” as the costume companies carefully describe him.

And the winner is – well, maybe “winner” isn’t the word because I personally don’t see getting an interview with Paris Hilton as anything to be proud of – CNN’s Larry King. After ABC’s $100,000 offer for Hilton’s first post-jail TV interview was rejected, and NBC pulled out and denied any deal had been made, [...]

It’s easy for journalists to get caught up in the quest for more information and to lose sight of what people might be going through during a crisis. But a Virginia Tech student made it clear where his priorities lay, as he spoke with Larry King last night about the campus shootings: VOLTMER: Yes, we [...]

Tonight was to be the first of CNN’s week long celebration of Larry King’s 50th year in broadcasting. One of the hallmarks of his Larry King Live TV interviews has been timeliness, so it was fitting that everything was cancelled so he could provide coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.

I’ve spoken before on this blog about the work of John Sawatsky and the influence he’s had on the interviewing skills of many journalists. Well, his Technorati score is way up this week after a big story about him on the popular NPR show All Things Considered. He’s reaching guru status. The Art of the [...]