But she seemed to have no trouble understanding the CNN interviewers over a fuzzy Skype connection.
The following year, Hoffman featured as the narrator and interviewer in The Party's Over, a documentary about the 2000 U.S. elections.
The interviewer hunched over like a lion about to take a chunk out of gazelle and growled, "You are wrong.
Consent was asked at the end of the computer-assisted individual interview, with the interviewer handing over an information leaflet and a consent form for the respondent to sign if they gave permission.
There's an unspeakably sad clip in the documentary in which a soft-spoken young father breaks down before a television interviewer over his failure to find anyone willing to hire a black man, and a vintage clip of a young white suburban mother explaining in a shaky voice, "We have our home here, and if the colored move in and run real estate prices down, it's bound to create tension.
Frost became a softer interviewer: "Over time, your technique of interviewing changes," Frost said.
Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina who is considered a long shot for president, told an interviewer over the weekend that, if elected, "we're going to address climate change, CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way".
Mr. Strumolo has forewarned an interviewer over the telephone that he is not that interesting.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz, an advocate of taking the antiterror campaign into Iraq, told an interviewer over the weekend, "I think any government that supports or harbors terrorists should be very worried right now".
You might assume that people would be more willing to identify as Latino with the secret ballot of the exit polls than they are to an interviewer over the phone.
