Nicholson, an experienced former BBC Breakfast presenter, handled interviews competently but Moore - who is more used to venting her opinions in her Sun column - could not avoid the trap of interrupting guests to interject her own views.
"Hey, talk!" With sweat beading up on his forehead, Mr. May then began prowling for more "scoops," he said, all the while interrupting guests with his own running commentary on the local dot-com scene, berating members of a competing publication (which he said had tried to sabotage his local television appearance the night before), and all but harassing high-tech executives who tried to avoid him.
At both CNN and MSNBC, rules are in place to play to correspondents' strengths such as eye-rolling, giggling, personal comments, interrupting guests and talking about the weather.
"I have never, ever interrupted a guest.
There She Was," the band's last song to chart in America; and "Anomie & Bonhomie," a confused anthology of perky songs interrupted by guest rappers, which was released in 1999 to universal indifference.
Though Paar was as charming and human and witty as ever (especially when he had to interrupt his guest to hawk such sponsors as Lip Quick and ReaLemon), Kennedy responded with fat paragraphs of well-practiced stump boilerplate.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson repeatedly interrupted his guest, former DNC communications director Luis Miranda, on Tuesday so he could put forward his view that immigrants are replacing Americans.
Smart money says the host is still asking the question or has interrupted the guest who is trying to give an answer.
Kaplan dismisses the usual knock on Rose that he talks too much and interrupts his guest as "a canard, the product of critics who prefer inquisition to inquiry".
Mr. Koppel does not interrupt his guests, who are given plenty of time to respond and are not pressed to spout packaged sound bites.
