{"id":4486,"date":"2009-07-28T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:36:35","slug":"which-of-these-author-tv-interviews-from-hell-is-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/which-of-these-author-tv-interviews-from-hell-is-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of these author TV-interviews-from-hell is the worst?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love showing you clips of TV interviews that are perfect examples of how NOT to act on camera.<\/p>\n<p>This week, you get not one, but two videos. Each can best be described as, uh, a &#8220;teaching moment.&#8221; Both authors start stumbling, right out of the gate.<\/p>\n<p>In the first video, author Uri Man&#8217;s comments are so inappropriate that he rattles FOX host Ainsley Earhardt. At the end of the interview, she turns to her co-host and asks, &#8220;Did that just happen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the second video, the anchors start taunting author Karrine Steffans and things turn really ugly. Karrine&#8217;s response infuriates the anchors so badly that at the end&#8230;.well, I&#8217;m not going to spoil it for you. But promise me you&#8217;ll watch to the bitter end.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the first video, from a recent segment on &#8220;America&#8217;s News HQ&#8221; on FOX News:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Publicity Hound Jamile White of Bowie, Md., aka <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EcommerceDiva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@EcommerceDiva <\/a>on Twitter, for flagging us to this segment from <a href=\"http:\/\/gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoodDaySacramento<\/a>, the CBS station in Sacramento, Calif.:<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s your turn.<\/p>\n<p>Which of the two do you think is the worst example of an interview-gone-bad? Are the anchors at fault? If you had been either one of those authors, how would you have responded?<\/p>\n<p>Media trainers and book publicists, what would you have told these authors after the fact if they had been your clients?<\/p>\n<p>Ask your Twitter followers what they think\u00a0by clicking on the green &#8220;tweet&#8221; button. Or share this with your Facebook friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love showing you clips of TV interviews that are perfect examples of how NOT to act on camera. This week, you get not one, but two videos. Each can best be described as, uh, a &#8220;teaching moment.&#8221; Both authors start stumbling, right out of the gate. In the first video, author Uri Man&#8217;s comments\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/which-of-these-author-tv-interviews-from-hell-is-the-worst\/\" class=\"rmlink\">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":57,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[608,620,610],"class_list":{"0":"post-4486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-authors-publishers","8":"tag-how-to-interview","9":"tag-publicist","10":"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\/4486","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=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42057,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/42057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}