He says that you can cover a lot more ground when people are sitting down, "because you can employ body language, you can move them along with a shake of your head, or with your eyes, which you cannot do in a podium format".
Mrs. Bush said of Mrs. Obama, "I like to watch her; I think she's doing great," adding, "I hope she'll discover, and I think she has, that she really does have a podium and that people do watch her from all over the world.
Now, the custom on such occasions is for all the people who worked hard on a case — including investigators from city, state and federal agencies — to line up alongside their bosses on the podium and do a standing lap of honor around the contraband, usually piles of money or bricks of dope or stacks of assault weapons.
He was sitting, braced by a pillow, on a couch in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, looking a bit smaller and softer than he does behind a podium.
If the editor responsible for coordinating content has done a good job, the podium presentations will be succinct and integrated.
Esa-Pekka Salonen takes to the podium, does a sequence of squats, swallows a vitamin pill, removes his jacket and, in T-shirt and jeans, takes his baton out of its black case.
(Four seconds is a really long time when you're alone on a podium!) Don't do it all the time, but try to do it every once in a while.
"Why do I need a podium for?" said Chad Ochocinco, who, surrounded by a scrum of reporters, proceeded to answer the question.
But they don't have a podium.
"Our funding is based on our success, if we don't achieve a podium in 2012, it's highly likely that our funding will either be cut or it will be finished altogether and therefore we need to put the programme in a position where we develop some legacy," Morley told BBC Sport.
