Does anyone feel like they know everything Google is doing with our data by reading its SEC filings or listening to a scripted conference call?
Ms. White held few, and tightly scripted, news conferences and granted no substantive interviews.
And through it all, she has said little publicly, staging few, highly scripted news conferences, granting no substantive interviews and closely guarding the details of investigations.
At his ebullient, if scripted, press conference, he stressed that actions speak more than style.
The deputy environmental protection minister, Wu Xiaoqing, refused to answer a question about soil pollution at a tightly scripted press conference on Friday.
The closest thing Hoffman has to an extended-family vacation is The Weekend to Be Named Later, a highly scripted annual conference held between Christmas and New Year's at a Southern California resort.
Eight players from a 156-man field were urine-tested at last year's Open, with even that statistic unbeknown to the R&A's chief executive, Martin Slumbers, when he appeared for a painfully scripted media conference on Wednesday.
Negotiations descend quickly into anger or prolonged silences, like a Potsdam conference scripted by Pinter.
That may sound like an odd thing for a bureaucrat to say about a prime minister's speech, but in Japan even Q&A portions of press conferences are scripted.
If Major League Baseball officials could have scripted today's news conference to announce the starting pitchers and the lineups for Tuesday night's All-Star Game at Miller Park, they would have made sure that every question focused on the beauty of baseball.
