Hilarious post from John Naughton about a researcher from Richard and Judy contacting him to ask about blogs, and just not getting it. They asked John to appear on the show and he declined. Shame - personally I think John's withering responses to Richard Madeley's platitudes would have been a YouTube classic.
I haven't had that much to do with journalists but when I have I have always had an encounter similar to John's - you are trying to explain something and they say 'so can we say the internet has killed television' (or something similar). And I reply, 'no, what I mean is ...' and then they come back and say 'so we'll say that the internet has mortally wounded television' Then, resigned and tired I say, 'yeah, that's right.' There does seem to be this overriding need to simplify things to a standard position.
I have been asked to do radio a few times but it's never come off, and now I don't get asked much. I think you need to have either a big profile in a specific subject area (like John) or actively court these things. This is something of a relief to be honest - if Garrison Keillor has a good face for radio, I have a good voice for mime.
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