You guys did a great job, thanks for sharing the tips.
What I learned my first time on live TV
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#12I like how you used a live TV spot, which I never would have seen to create a blog post which I did.
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#13Something I learned after many cases of being asked to rush down to studio for a live appearance to talk about some security event: Have your 30 sec response ready to go. The talking head newscaster is going to completely screw up the question. Ignore the question and say something smart. Otherwise you are playing into their hands and will say something as stupid as he/she did.
Love this. Answer the question you want to answer.
Politicians do this all the time and we never get any useful answers out of them as a result. Not sure it is an improvement.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Love this. Answer the question you want to answer.
Politicians do this all the time and we never get any useful answers out of them as a result. Not sure it is an improvement.
Another maybe-negative use of this strategy, as conveyed to me by a famous professor:
If you give a technical talk and afterwards someone asks a question you don't know how to answer, instead answer a similar question you can answer. Then the audience will think you just misunderstood the question, rather than thinking that you didn't know the answer. This strategy won't work if the questioner is persistent, but usually they aren't.
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#15What? Why is this posted here? (maybe for people hoping to promote their business on tv news? As a former reporter, i'd advise anybody hoping to do so against hoping to do so. it's a real shot in the dark as to whether youd get tv -- or newsprint -- time for your business. some news outlets have business segments or sections, but they can be really hard to get into too, especially for technology companies)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Politicians do this all the time and we never get any useful answers out of them as a result. Not sure it is an improvement.
Another maybe-negative use of this strategy, as conveyed to me by a famous professor: If you give a technical talk and afterwards someone asks a question you don't know how to answer, instead answer a similar question you can answer. Then the audience will think you just misunderstood the question, rather than thinking that you didn't know the answer. This strategy won't work if the questioner is persistent, but usua…
> This strategy won't work if the questioner is persistent, but usually they aren't.
I think it may only seem to work to the person answering the question. Having sat in on many talks, it's often noticeable when a person answers a different question vs genuinely misunderstanding.
In astronomy, at least, I'd rather admit I didn't know the answer than try to fake it by answering a different question.
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#17What? Why is this posted here? (maybe for people hoping to promote their business on tv news? As a former reporter, i'd advise anybody hoping to do so against hoping to do so. it's a real shot in the dark as to whether youd get tv -- or newsprint -- time for your business. some news outlets have business segments or sections, but they can be really hard to get into too, especially for technology companies)
Because someone thought it was interesting enough to submit, and others thought it was interesting enough to vote up. Pretty simple, really.
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#18They have a team behind switching around for the best shot. Look at the interviewer.
Yes exactly. It’s the host’s job to talk to the audience. Unless you have something to specifically say to those watching, you’re better off focusing on the host and letting the director do their thing. It’s awkward when guests look at the camera but are responding to a question from the interviewer.
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#19I like how you used a live TV spot, which I never would have seen to create a blog post which I did.
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