No. of Recommendations: 6
I don't know if the BBC is still capable of this, but back in the 80s and 90s I was struck by how their interviewers could put someone on the spot, dig in, and simply not release their teeth from the subject until they got a coherent and meaningful answer from them.
Maybe because the BBC was the only game in town? If you wanted your mug on the telly, you had to talk to them. They didn’t have to worry about what happens now, which is if you’re not a total sycophant they refuse to talk to you and run to Fox where they will face a barrage of tough questions like “Why are Republicans always better?” And “Why are Democrats always worse?”
Kinda used to be like that in the US, too, before the “safe cameras” arrived. Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Edward R Murrow, David Brinkley and others expected real answers . I would pay anything to see what they would do with the Word Salad King® and his increasingly dementia laden and nonsensical blather.
