The Media Interview

I’ve never been a huge fan of talk shows (or any show) that has a street-level window for a backdrop. Inevitably, something distracting is happening on the street… like the other morning in Ottawa, Canada:
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Thanks - I think - to Keith Olbermann on Countdown for tipping [...]

Wrestler Chris Jericho was on Fight Network Radio recently to talk about his new autobiography, A Lion’s Tale. I loved his response when asked if he was “sick of media interviews yet”:
I’m happy to talk to anybody. I just did an interview with a fourteen-year-old kid that has his own website. And yesterday I [...]

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

From JazzFanz.com:
Utah Jazz rookie center Kyrylo Fesenko had to cut his post-game media interviews short on Wednesday night after the Jazz’s 101-93 preseason win over the Philadelphia 76ers. Fesenko’s ride was leaving and didn’t want to wait. No, the youngster hasn’t hired a limo driver with his new NBA riches. He just can’t drive… The [...]

Entertainment Wise says celebrity interviewer Martin Bashir is trying to set up an interview with Britney Spears and Kevin Federline:
A source tells The People, “As far as Martin is concerned it would be all of his Christmases come at once if he could secure a deal with both of them.
“He is really keen to do [...]

Found this on the WNDU sports blog, from South Bend, Indiana:
It was already past 8pm when Evan Sharpley [Notre Dame quarterback] walked into the media room on Tuesday evening.
Practice ran about 25 minutes longer than usual.
Sharpley was jokingly asked, “Is this the best part of your day—when practice is finished?”
Sharpley answered that the best part [...]

Finally got to see the much-talked-about Paris Hilton interview on Letterman last week. I’m no fan of Hilton’s public persona, but I felt for her to a certain extent. Letterman starts in with questions about her stay in prison, and never ever lets up. Even after 4 minutes, when Hilton says she [...]

Anyone who’s been on a long media tour or simply didn’t get enough sleep before an interview will really feel for Israeli President, Shimon Peres, as he literally nods off on live TV.

While a Swedish TV crew interviews an official about accidents on a new roundabout…. there’s an accident on the new roundabout…

Thanks to SpikedHumor for that clip - BTW, according to Spiked, no one was hurt in the accident.

A public relations firm out of Florida recently offered to media coach President George Bush, for free. An article in the South Florida Daily Business News says that O’Connell & Goldberg Public Relations made the offer back in August. According to the article, the firm feels
there’s plenty that could be done to help [...]