60 Minutes is slated to air the Roger Clemens mia non-cupla segment on Jan. 6, but pundits are already weighing in with their opinions. Is this fair? Will it have the deleterious effect of prejudicing an audience that’s still on the fence?
Here’s part of Jon Friedman’s take on Marketwatch.com:
Would Clemens have consented to sit down with, say, Scott Pelley or another CBS reporter who isn’t a buddy? I sure hope “60 Minutes” isn’t pairing interviewers with subjects primarily because their on-air chemistry has the potential to create “good television.”
Concerned with Mike Wallace’s ability to be his legendary hard-hitting self, Friedman offers some possible interview questions, such as:
- Roger, when you went nuts during the 2000 World Series and famously fired a broken bat at Mike Piazza, were you “on” anything?
- Why do you think you were mentioned in the Mitchell report when you have insisted you are innocent of all wrongdoing?
- Can you look into the camera and repeat that you are innocent of these accusations and that you have never taken the kinds of illegal substances mentioned in the Mitchell report?
- How does it feel to be mentioned in the same breath as such disgraced former baseball stars as Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire?
- Are you worried that this cloud of doubt will make you look like a classic sports villain — and keep you out of the Baseball Hall of Fame forever?
- So, Rocket, as we conclude this interview, I have only one question left to ask you: How did I do?
On The LoHud Yankees Blog, Peter Abraham predicts how the interview will go:
Roger Clemens goes on 60 Minutes and tells long-time Yankees fan Mike Wallace he definitely didn’t do steroids. “Good enough for me,” Wallace says.
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Interesting, I didn’t know Wallace and Clemens had personal history before I wrote about Clemens’ media strategy at . If they were buds before the interview, then Clemens’ strategy is a lot shakier than I initially thought. And I initially thought it was pretty shaky.
[Bookshelf note: The contributor has an interesting entry on the topic at his own blog, Checkmate. You can read his remarks here. — RK]
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