He even answered that he did not remember whether one suspect he tried to interview had spit in his face.
"There was a culture of fear," Mr. Lorr said of the Bikram teacher trainings he experienced, where he tried to interview other students.
According to Sperber, he couldn't penetrate the secretary zone when he tried to interview Knight in the 1980's for one of his critiques of college sport.
There was even speculation that if the Giants won, Barber's former teammates would turn a cold shoulder if he tried to interview them in his new capacity as a broadcast journalist.
His pursuit of the insider-trading case against Pequot and Mr. Samberg was thwarted by high-level S.E.C. officials, Mr. Aguirre contended, when he tried to interview John J. Mack, a friend of Mr. Samberg's and the incoming chief executive of Morgan Stanley.
Howley told HuffPost he tried to interview Dixon for months. .
Morrison said that after the initial shock, he tried to interview the survivors even though he could not speak German nor they English.
Security guards for Alaska senate candidate Joe Miller handcuffed and detained the editor of the online magazine "Alaska Dispatch" on Sunday while he tried to interview the Republican nominee, according to multiple reports.
