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My Four Minutes

The key to a successful defense is not answering the questions they ask you, but figuring out how to give them the answers you have prepared, no matter what questions they ask.

The same, I understand now, is true of television or radio interviews. If they aren’t soliciting the answers you’ve rehearsed, you have to find a way to solicit the questions you want them to ask. —James M. LangMy Four Minutes (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Interesting reflection by a professor who was interviewed on Fox’s Morning News. Note that the interviewer scanned a list of questions her producer had prepared for her, and then basically winged the interview.

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Dennis G. Jerz

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