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Sir David Frost RIP















Goldstone Rapper

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His interviewing style has gone off the boil since the 1960s. Far too cosy, whereas he was the Paxman of the sixties.

Still sad news. RIP.
 




vegster

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May 5, 2008
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Bit of a shock to say the least, RIP.
 






TSB

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trueblue

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His interviewing style has gone off the boil since the 1960s. Far too cosy, whereas he was the Paxman of the sixties.

Still sad news. RIP.

Arguable that the Paxman types get far less out of people than the deceptively friendly Frost, who'd lull people in, then nail them. It's all "look at how tough I am" these days which switches the focus to the interviewer - which really isn't the point.
 


Goldstone Rapper

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Arguable that the Paxman types get far less out of people than the deceptively friendly Frost, who'd lull people in, then nail them. It's all "look at how tough I am" these days which switches the focus to the interviewer - which really isn't the point.

I think you are right in many ways, and it probably does explain Frost's change of tack. A politician making a gaffe is rare, though. The problem is that it doesn't make for very good TV to have an interviewer pulling their punches on the off-chance of a false sense of security. And it's not like the softly softly approach gets a result in the vast majority of cases. At least with Paxman, and with Walden before, it's very watchable even if a politician is evading a tough question. With Frost in his latter years, it was the interviewer who was avoiding the tough questions.
 
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