ambush interview

He doubted that the ambush interview would work with the three people on his list.

So why wasn't he able to name a handful of world leaders during the famed "ambush interview"?

The main thing is, I want to give you some drill about handling that sort of ambush interview."

Of course, the ambush interview is hardly unknown in the United States.

What are these ambush interviews that he's doing?

Sometimes Ross and Hudson add a separate, ambush interview.

In Sibrel's second documentary, he expands on his previous work by borrowing a mainstream tactic: the ambush interview.

Mr. Wilson defends his confrontational style, which involves jostling, sharp elbows and ambush interviews.

As "60 Minutes" matured, the ambush interview faded, the inquisitor's approach softened and the broadcast gradually developed a less antic persona.

Although the program has never lost a lawsuit, its correspondents have often seemed excessively ruthless in interviews, even catching them by surprise in ambush interviews.

The trademark "60 Minutes" piece is a Mike Wallace "gotcha," involving malfeasance, hidden cameras, and an ambush interview.

This wasn't an ambush interview - that deplorable tactic used by reporters who call the subject an hour before deadline and demand immediate responses to complex, often hostile questions.

In July 1999, Nardwuar suffered a cerebral hemorrhage (aborting his planned ambush interview of Courtney Love), but recovered after surgery.

Compared with ambush interviews one sometimes sees on the CBS News program "60 Minutes," Mr. Coppolino comes across as having excellent manners.

On "TV Nation," he continued to stage pranks and conduct ambush interviews, often intended to make a political or social point and to make his targets look foolish.

Mr. Wallace confesses to enjoying his "ambush interviews" with cancer quacks, pornography peddlers and others, but he concedes that they produced more heat than light and have been largely abandoned.

The announcement of the surrender was downplayed by the Magdalo group as part of a "psywar" operation on the part of the Government, during an ambush interview of Trillanes.

On October 24, 2011, Walsh was once again in the spotlight as she reprised the role of Marg Delahunty conducting an ambush interview of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at his home.

The library piece was satirized on September 28, 2006 by Comedy Central's The Daily Show in a segment where correspondent Jason Jones put on a trench coat and attempted an ambush interview with Carl Monday.

The show has ambush interviews, sketch comedy and a signature bit featuring a piano-playing singer of bawdy songs named Billy Foster, known as the Fox, whose remarkably wide gullet allows him to chug a mug of beer in one gulp.

However, the show inspired both the American newsmagazine 60 Minutes and the Canadian sketch comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, which took both its name and a comedic variation on Seven Days-style ambush interviews from the earlier show.

Meanwhile, Reynaldo Flemm, jealous of Christina's growing attraction to Mick, comes up with his own plan to break the Barletta case: he schedules a nose job and abdominoplasty with Rudy, planning to conduct an ambush interview once the nose job is done.

Using Gunston's gormless personality as a cover to break down the defences of his "victims", McDonald pioneered the satirically provocative "ambush interview" technique which was used to great effect in interviews with Paul McCartney, Muhammad Ali, Keith Moon and actress Sally Struthers.

At NBC, a unit of the General Electric Company, "ambush interviews" - in which reporters and cameramen stake out a person's home or business - have largely been banned except in rare cases where a report's subject is committing an illegal activity, said Andrew Lack, the president of the network's news division.