Paris Hilton can teach you a thing or two about how to interview on a national TV talk show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During her exclusive interview <\/a>with Larry King last week, Hilton mentioned that when she was behind bars, she read the Bible.<\/p>\n When King asked, “What’s your favorite Bible passage?”\u00a0 She hesitated a long time, then said, “I don’t have a favorite.”<\/p>\n That wasn’t a trick question.\u00a0 Interviewers frequently ask you to describe the “best” or “worst” of something, or your “favorite” or “least favorite” something, and she should have been ready for that one.\u00a0 Not having an answer made her appear even more disingenuous than she already is.<\/p>\n If you’re going to introduce a topic during your interview that’s sure to pique the interest of the interviewer, you had better be ready to elaborate.\u00a0 Or risk looking unprepared and foolish.<\/p>\n If you’re a media coach or a speech coach,\u00a0by the way, exclusive interviews like that one provide a great opportunity for you to\u00a0critique the performance of the celebrity.\u00a0 Many people who missed the interview on TV will be searching for it the next day online.\u00a0<\/p>\n That’s why your blog is a great place to comment on it.\u00a0 You can also post comments at other influential blogs that discuss the interview.\u00a0 And offer commentary to the TV columnist at your local newspaper.<\/p>\n See “How to Keep the Media Wolves at Bay.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paris Hilton can teach you a thing or two about how to interview on a national TV talk show.\u00a0 During her exclusive interview with Larry King last week, Hilton mentioned that when she was behind bars, she read the Bible. When King asked, “What’s your favorite Bible passage?”\u00a0 She hesitated a long time, then said,\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":7,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[620],"class_list":{"0":"post-1024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-how-to-interview","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41234,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/41234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}