Barbara Walters

摘要

What's the difference between interviewing someone and being interviewed? When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not. How do you put people at ease when you're interviewing them? The most important thing is to do your homework. It used to really annoy me when someone would come to interview me and say, "I'm sorry. I've never seen you on the air." When you started, you did what the press called "girlie interviews." How did you get out of that? When I was on the Today show, which was in the Middle Ages, they did what we would call the tea-pouring interview. But what I remember most about the Today show is that I worked for many years with Hugh Downs and Frank McGee. And Frank died. In my contract, we had written-because we never thought it would happen-that if anything happened to Frank McGee, I would automatically become co-host. I became the co-host, which has stayed the same in all the morning shows.