Q&A: Who is the rudest person you've ever interviewed?
05/19/25 • 22 min
In this week’s Q&A episode, Alan and Lionel discuss their most difficult interviews.
They also discuss why journalists are no longer sent out to cover council meetings and whether that has an impact on democracy.
Plus, the hosts answer an email about the BBC’s dominance over online news in the UK.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this week’s Q&A episode, Alan and Lionel discuss their most difficult interviews.
They also discuss why journalists are no longer sent out to cover council meetings and whether that has an impact on democracy.
Plus, the hosts answer an email about the BBC’s dominance over online news in the UK.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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CNN's CEO: ‘If we didn't have politicians on air who might lie, we'd struggle to fill the airwaves’
At the Truth Tellers summit in London, Alan and Lionel sit down with Mark Thompson, the CEO of American media giant CNN.Mark is asked if he has sat down with Trump since he started in office.
Does he feel a slide towards state-owned media, monitored by the White House? And why does CNN continue to give the president airtime?
“If the rule was [that] we didn't have politicians on the air who might lie", he says, "we'd be struggling possibly to fill the airwaves.”
Plus, after listening to the ‘Rest is Classified’ podcast series on whistleblower Edward Snowden, Alan discusses his role in publishing the Snowden documents, and how he believes the BBC was too timid to cover the story.
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Trump v the New York Times
This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Joseph Kahn, executive editor of the New York Times. Alan, Lionel and Joe discuss editing in the time of Trump, why US media organisations are bending to the president, and whether publications owned by corporations are really equipped to resist the government.
Plus, the hosts talk about Gary Lineker’s departure from the BBC—and a new book which explores what journalists knew about former president Joe Biden’s deteriorating health but withheld from the public, for fear of losing access to the White House.
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