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Larry King is celebrating 50 years in broadcasting. He's spent half a century asking other people questions. Mike Wallace has turned the tables on him twice - in 1992 and again in 2004. Watch two of America's most famous interviewers spar, bicker and laugh.
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Larry King and his staff do a horrendous job preparing for his interviews. If King really wanted to press Jerry on a rumor that NBC canceled the show, not Seinfeld, he did a horrible job of putting the opening question together.
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After these odd events, King was off the air for a few years, and worked as an announcer at a race track. In 1978, he started his nationally syndicated Larry King Show on Mutual Radio, and in 1985 he joined CNN, with a similar format of yakking with celebrities and newsmakers, then taking calls from the public. On the air, he wears suspenders and black-rimmed glasses, and always comes across as a nice guy. King prefers to ask what he calls "human questions", not "press-conference questions", and characterizes himself as an "interviewer", not a journalist. He often explains that he does not prepare for interviews. Fine when he is interviewing Kirsten Dunst or Stephen King -- it is a tedious disservice, though, when interviewing politicians and policymakers, who know the questions will be softball.
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Some have claimed that Larry King asks "soft" questions in comparison to other interviewers, which allows him to reach guests who would be averse to interviewing on "tough" talk shows. When interviewed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, King said that the secret to a good interview is to get the guest to talk about him- or herself, and to put oneself in the background. A 1996 interview in the Washington Post had King note that he sometimes slips hard questions in between softballs. King prefers one sentence questions. In the Post interview, King ... proclaimed that he prepares as little as possible for each program, does not read the books of the authors he interviews, and admitted that the show was not journalism but "infotainment". He said that he tries to project an image of earnestness and sincerity in each interview, and the format of the show (King in suspenders instead of suit and tie, sitting directly next to the guest) reinforces that.
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[W]hy do popular preachers come on Larry King and capitulate on the Christian message in one way or another? Perhaps it is because of the negative, often intense reaction they know they will get for being so bold in their faith. It certainly happened to John MacArthur during a roundtable discussion with other religious figures on the question of what happens after you die. Time after time, MacArthur reiterated his firm conviction that the Bible says “neither is their salvation in any other name other than Jesus Christ” (3). Not once did he infer that a practicing Jew, Muslim or atheist could be found pleasing in the eyes of God. The reaction from Larry King and the other panelists, ranging from a Rabbi to an atheist, was predictable.
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Even though King goes to synagogue he is not sure that God is hearing him. King, in a book he co-authored with Rabbi Irwin Katsof entitled, Powerful Prayers, says the only thing he’s ever prayed for was for the Dodger’s to win a game. Though he just can’t seem to find faith, King admittedly says that the many rabbis he’s met in his life have affected him profoundly. What King especially likes about Judaism, which he does not find in other faiths, is that it forces people to continually question things—a fitting tradition for the curious King.
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