interview with Oprah Winfrey this Sunday is guaranteed to yield only one thing, and that is bumper ratings. The last time Oprah interviewed a global superstar who was wary of the public gaze it was Michael Jackson in 1993.
Ninety million (90) people tuned in. That’s because once the camera rolls, the TV interview has a particular intimacy that a magazine profile or front-page article cannot match: stupid though it sounds to say it, you can see the person saying the words.
Deep fakes and canny editing notwithstanding, a TV interview remains about as close to unmitigated truth as you’re going to get.
The art of the TV interview (and the tedium of most TV interviews suggests that conducting good ones is an art) is to do with the relationship.
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