{"id":399,"date":"2011-12-14T21:36:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T02:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2015-03-01T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:00:38","slug":"interviewing-jack-abramoff-for-c-span","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Interviewing Jack Abramoff for C-SPAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Book TV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booktv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">C-SPAN&#8217;s Book TV <\/a>invited me to interview convicted ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff for its <a title=\"Aferwords\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booktv.org\/Series\/AW\/After-Words.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Afterwords <\/a>program. The\u00a0invitation was prompted by <a title=\"Abramoff Article\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.rollcall.com\/issues\/57_60\/Jack_Abramoff_Expects_Cold_Shoulder_From_K_Street-210353-1.html?zkMobileView=true\" target=\"_blank\">this Roll Call article <\/a>that I wrote on Abramoff&#8217;s attempt to reinvent himself with the publication of his book, &#8220;Capitol Punishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For past TV appearances, I have always been the interviewee and someone else has been asking the questions. This time I was asking the questions &#8211; something I\u00a0do constantly for print interviews, but which involves\u00a0different skills in the broadcast medium. Timing is key, including the art of conducting the interview in precisely the alotted time. I found it challenging but enjoyable. Another reversal: When we concluded the interview, I found myself asking Abramoff for his card so I could keep abreast of his &#8220;reform&#8221; activities. Now he has gone from subject to source. In Washington, it seems, there is always another turn of the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Afterwords Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/program\/303101-1\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the whole interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-SPAN&#8217;s Book TV invited me to interview convicted ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff for its Afterwords program. The\u00a0invitation was prompted by this Roll Call article that I wrote on Abramoff&#8217;s attempt to reinvent himself with the publication of his book, &#8220;Capitol Punishment.&#8221; For past TV appearances, I have always been the interviewee and someone else has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-appearances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}