The Liberal inquisitors / David Suskind, Mike Wallace, and Barry Gray ; interviewed by Dick Elman and Gene Bruck.

Informal panel discussion in which Suskind, Wallace and Gray explore their roles as media’s ‘Liberal Inquisitors.’ They discuss interviewing techniques, how to elicit information, conversational vs. inquisatorial tactics, and the difference between radio and television formats. The group discusses whether it is the guest or the interviewer who makes a show successful, and constraints placed upon them by the mainstream media, especially the tendency toward tabloid journalism to make shows popular. The panel then debates the controversial Suskind interview with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, with Wallace and Gray labeling the effort a ‘botched’ opportunity.|THE LIBERAL INQUISITORS / David Suskind, Mike Wallace, Barry Gray| interviewed by Dick Elman and Gene Bruck. – Informal panel discussion in which Suskind, Wallace and Gray explore their roles as media’s “Liberal Inquisitors.” They discuss interviewing techniques, how to elicit information, conversational vs. inquisator tactics, and the difference between radio and television formates. The group discusses whether it is the guest or the interviewer who makes a show successful, and constraints placed upon them by the mainstream media, especially the tendency toward tabloid journalism to make shows popular. The panel then debates the controversial Suskind interview with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, with Wallace and Gray labeling the effort a “botched” opportunity. – BROADCAST: WBAI, 26 July 1961.