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November 13, 2005
Media Adventures
A busy week of media done. 20 interviews by my count, 17 radio and 3 TV. (Thanks to publicity mavens Beth Mellow and Lisa Sweet for making it happen.) One of the television interviews was with CNN Headline News. It was set up at the last minute on Thursday afternoon, and I did it on Friday morning, Veteran’s Day. It’s really weird to sit alone in a chilly little room staring down the barrel of a camera while chatting with a disembodied voice in your ear. (And how many ears, I wonder, has that earpiece been in? To be fair, they did have tiny disinfectant wipes, as well as plenty of spare earpieces for those more fastidious than I.) It is tough to be natural and relaxed in that situation, but it came off reasonably well.
By Friday early afternoon I had done 5 interviews, and was thinking that a nap sounded really good, when I got a call from WZMY, a television station in New Hampshire that I had been on earlier in the week. A guest had cancelled on their 9 PM talk show “My TV Prime, and since it was Veteran’s Day, they were wondering if I could come on again. The twist was that this time they hoped I could talk about the Ghost Army project, which I had mentioned (of-camera) on my previous visit.
Ghost Army is still in the super preliminary stages, but this seemed like too good an opportunity to pass up. So the nap went by the boards, and Editor Eric Handley and I did some high-speed under-deadline cutting to come up with a two minute trailer we could show that night. I jumped in my car with the piece at 7:30, and made it up to Derry NH in plenty of time to do the show, which was hosted by Arnie Arnesen. Everybody really seemed to like the tape we showed, and hopefully that will help us generate some buzz. I talked to Martha Gavin afterwards, (She's the one who turned us on to this story, her Uncle John Jarvie is one of the veterans) and she was VERY excited to see the publicity the story got. Afterwards I had to hightail it back to Boston to get to WBZ by midnight for the last appointment of the day, an hour with Jordan Rich on BZ radio.
I had a similar sort of “call back” this afternoon. I did a phone interview with Norman Mark, a radio host on KNWZ Radio in Palm Springs California from 1:30 to 2. I thought I would have a chance to take a nap afterwards, but they called back at 2:15—they’re guest for the next hour had cancelled, could I come back on. So I ended up talking with him for another 45 minutes. It’s all been great, but man, am I wiped.
Posted by rickbeyer at November 13, 2005 09:41 AM
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