Re: Television Appearance on CNN

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 05:41:17 MDT


On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 05:15 am, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>>
>> But I do think it would be a good idea to practice mock interviews and
>> to develop one-liners for responses. Max's logic and clear
>> explanation is not as audience-grabbing as one-line sound-bytes and
>> emotional words.
>
> Max had some nice one-liners too, actually - for example, the line
> about "These people are not disposable. These are human beings with a
> chance of coming back" is a good one-liner.

I agree. I in no way meant to disparage Max's performance. I just
remember that they kept cutting him off and talking over each other. I
realized that Crossfire isn't about logic and explanations. It is about
zingers, sound-bites and grabbing mindshare. Max did a wonderful job,
but I began to brainstorm what strategies we could use if we had more
advance warning and time to prepare.

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Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>


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