CNN Reliable Sources September 1, 2013 15:28:00
Television interviewer as compared to a print interviewer. one is exercising the power of silence. he said you really have to know when to shut up and let somebody, your guest fill the gap because particularly somebody like nixon who's so intelligent and so combative. it was the silences in that interview which teased out a lot of the confessional material from nixon. he also said that you could never overassert for an interview. with nixon, he did 28 hours of tape with richard nixon. and the amount of preparation that david frost had to do, he told me weeks and weeks and weeks of really immac...
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