I was interviewed this afternoon by ABC-TV for Good Morning America. It will play tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Check your local listings.
The issue was the “stimulus” package. I found the questions unusually good. We’ll see what gets used.
Feb 1 2009
For my talk at the anti-stimulus conference. Still a work in progress.I am now told that I have 15 minutes. My guess is that if I were paid $100 for every minute that my co-panelists exceed that limit, I would make thousands of dollars. But I will stick to the limit. Giving a short talk requires much more preparati...
Feb 1 2009
Hall and Woodward write, One problem with the employment stimulus is that the funds go in the first instance to the owners of businesses and not to consumers generally. This criticism applies to my preferred stimulus, which is to take Bryan Caplan's suggestion and cut the employer contribution to the payroll tax. I ...
Jan 30 2009
I was interviewed this afternoon by ABC-TV for Good Morning America. It will play tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Check your local listings. The issue was the "stimulus" package. I found the questions unusually good. We'll see what gets used.
READER COMMENTS
David R. Henderson
Jan 31 2009 at 8:23am
If you missed me on ABC, you didn’t miss much. Out of a 15-minute interview, they used under 15 seconds. Dan Mitchell of Cato did a good job, though, and they used more of that interview.
RL
Jan 31 2009 at 3:14pm
I understand your experience is the rule, not the exception. The good news would be if the 15 seconds they used did not distort the underlying point of the 15 minutes you gave them.
David R. Henderson
Jan 31 2009 at 5:51pm
Thanks, RL. They didn’t distort. They used one line: “There’s nothing wrong with doing nothing.” I do better with local TV, but that shouldn’t be surprising. The interviewer, though, John Hendren, was really good. When I would give an answer, he would ask a follow-up question that someone who’s thinking about the issue would ask. I find that rare, even on national TV. My past experience is O’Reilly, Jim Lehrer Newshour, and NPR.
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