Larry King will be DD soon

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I never got why he was so popular? I found him just a standard interview guy. Boring. I guess it was his ability to not ask hard questions that would get him really famous guests. I rarely found something new out about people from his interviews.

I found Howard Stern or in recent times a Rogan or others more interesting. Not because they’re more tawdry, but they get to how people think better through their questions. You get a sense of what make people tick. I never got that from King interviews. He was never my cup of tea. He seemed to appeal to those that liked having a familiar voice in the background on radio and tv.

It’s been the same formula forever. Someone basically promoting a book or movie or whatever does the interview circuit and a bunch of questions that tell you very little. Light bio sketches you can get yourself from wiki. I would guess it’s really hard to get an audience large enough to allow you to ask tougher and more psychologically invasive questions, where notable figures have to do it or lose money. Stern and Rogan have such audiences.

I would never say Larry King was the average interviewer guy. Late in his career, yeah ok, but even then he was good. Just saying late in his career is worth a badge.

King was competing, more or less, with news broadcasters now considered legendary.
Cronkite, Brinkley/Chancellor, Wallis, Susskind, Reynolds, Woodruff etc. etc.
This guy had only high school behind him.
So he made real good with what he had.

Out of all news anchors mentioned above, who would you say were the fake newsers?
You wouldn't dare attach that to any of the above. The people hoping to fill the shoes of their predecessors are blanket blamed by one psychopathic con artist on day two of his administration as fake news and you bought it.