”I Think of It More as Seduction”: CNN Host Fareed Zakaria, on the Art of the Interview

Today, we're back with Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, to talk about his lessons about how to do a great interview.

Fareed Zakaria has interviewed people from presidents, dictators, and the Dalai Lama over three decades, live on air. Tommy Stadlen and Cameron McLain talk to Zakaria about the craft behind those conversations: why he treats an interview as seduction rather than confrontation, why Lee Kuan Yew is the most impressive guest he's ever had, and why the Dalai Lama was a tough interview.

He speaks about:

• Why he avoids confrontation and treats interviews as seduction instead
• The Omar Bartov interview, and why he thinks a soft question made the conversation deeper than an accusation would have
• Why he rarely books politicians in power anymore (and regrets it most times he has)
• Lee Kuan Yew turning a "polyglot population" into a nation with no race riots
• Why the Dalai Lama was his hardest interview 
• What AI leaves for humans once it becomes the better "analytic machine"
• Why he doubts there will be another CNN

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Music credits: Bubble King written and produced by Cameron McLain and Stevan Cablayan aka Vector_XING.

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