The Media Interview

Detroit Lions wide receiver Roy Williams was out delivering pizzas for an afternoon recently - all because of a media interview.
Back on September 24th, during his weekly chat on WDFN radio, Williams said he never tips the people who deliver pizza. Doh! Despite trying to clarify himself on a later broadcast, the outrage [...]

The way NPR’s Bryant Park Project tells it, the Icelandic band Sigur Ros was at fault for what it calls “possibly the worst interview in the history of electronic media”.
Seriously.
It was that bad.
We’re not sure if they were tired, or if it was a language thing, or what… but wow.
Whereas most shows would just bury [...]

Having just written about the growth of TV cameras in radio studios and the need to watch what you say during commercials breaks, comes this story from KESQ TV:
The male escort responsible for the downfall of Christian evangelist leader Ted Haggard is now alleging that embattled Senator Larry Craig also came to see him.
While promoting [...]

A far worse sin than not having read a guest’s book, is to try and dip into it quickly and pretend you’ve read it, as this anecdote from Gail Williams illustrates, during an email forum featuring radio host Angie Coiro on The Well, July 2006:
I [once] asked a question of an author… based on randomly [...]

I was just listening to the radio, and the host begins the interview by asking what the author thinks about the issue raised in an interview just before the news break. Time for some quick bridging!!
In this case, at least, there was some connection between the two interviews - one was about parenting and [...]