What I like about Brennan is that she listens to guests and then formulates followup questions based on what her guests say. Kristen Welker on Meet The Press (NBC) doesn't listen. Occasionally she will follow up on questions, but mostly she appears to just go down a list of questions and tick them off. As a former television news interview host myself (in the 1970s and 1980s, some of it for PBS, most of it for local TV) I know how difficult it is to listen. You have the producer talking to you in your earpiece about one thing and another, a floor manager doing a countdown as time dwindles, and the obfuscation of the guest whom you're putting on the spot. But Brennan is a master at managing all of this. I've haven't seen anyone better at this since Tim Russert (Meet The Press) and Robert MacNeil (PBS's The MacNeil/Lehrer Report). Mike Wallace, maybe. But Mike didn't do live interviews. I'm referring to live TV interview hosts.
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What I like about Brennan is that she listens to guests and then formulates followup questions based on what her guests say. Kristen Welker on Meet The Press (NBC) doesn't listen. Occasionally she will follow up on questions, but mostly she appears to just go down a list of questions and tick them off. As a former television news interview host myself (in the 1970s and 1980s, some of it for PBS, most of it for local TV) I know how difficult it is to listen. You have the producer talking to you in your earpiece about one thing and another, a floor manager doing a countdown as time dwindles, and the obfuscation of the guest whom you're putting on the spot. But Brennan is a master at managing all of this. I've haven't seen anyone better at this since Tim Russert (Meet The Press) and Robert MacNeil (PBS's The MacNeil/Lehrer Report). Mike Wallace, maybe. But Mike didn't do live interviews. I'm referring to live TV interview hosts.
MB is much better at this than Welker.
Agree with you.
Tom, great analysis! Very interesting.
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Have you ever heard of equal time, too much Trump, he is bad news