Chapter 7The Art of the Interview

Respect the listener as much as you respect the person you’re interviewing. Neither is an idiot.

—Wichita Rutherford, 5 Minutes with Wichita

David Letterman, Oprah, Larry King, Barbra Walters, Johnny Carson.... The list goes on and on of famous people who became famous by interviewing other famous people. If we said you have 60 seconds to write down as many names as possible of different programs based primarily on conducting interviews, there is a good chance you would run out of time before you ran out of shows. By and ...

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