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This evening I’ll be giving a live interview on CNN International at 6:30 PM Central Daylight Time on — what else — offshore outsourcing. It’s for their CNN Today show. UPDATE: Well, that was fun — all 104 seconds of it!! The satellite feed cut out during the middle of the interview and that was ...
This evening I'll be giving a live interview on CNN International at 6:30 PM Central Daylight Time on -- what else -- offshore outsourcing. It's for their CNN Today show. UPDATE: Well, that was fun -- all 104 seconds of it!! The satellite feed cut out during the middle of the interview and that was that -- that or Ted Turner reeeeaaallly doesn't like me telling the truth and it was a grand conspiracy. [You're sounding like some of your commenters -- snap out of it!--ed. OK -- but I think it's an awfully big coincidence that this happens less than 24 hours before Lou Dobbs inks a contract to write a book on outsourcing for Time/Warner's book division] Reviewing the tape, however, I learned the following things about doing live, remote interviews:
This evening I’ll be giving a live interview on CNN International at 6:30 PM Central Daylight Time on — what else — offshore outsourcing. It’s for their CNN Today show. UPDATE: Well, that was fun — all 104 seconds of it!! The satellite feed cut out during the middle of the interview and that was that — that or Ted Turner reeeeaaallly doesn’t like me telling the truth and it was a grand conspiracy. [You’re sounding like some of your commenters — snap out of it!–ed. OK — but I think it’s an awfully big coincidence that this happens less than 24 hours before Lou Dobbs inks a contract to write a book on outsourcing for Time/Warner’s book division] Reviewing the tape, however, I learned the following things about doing live, remote interviews:
1) Against all natural instincts, pretend that the camera that you’re staring at is actually a person talking to you; 2) Don’t count on follow-up questions — give the entire answer in one shot; 3) Cut out the fried food a week before so the big honking pimple on your forehead is not visible from Mars with the unaided eye; 4) Smile.
I’m moving down the learning curve — very, very, slowly.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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