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| | Michael Petracca: Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara |
 | | However, the only comprehensive published study of talk show hosts' relative interviewing skills was conducted by social theorist and pop culture critic Douglas Rushkoff, and it's a somewhat informal study, intended to be thought-provoking and entertaining rather than detailed and systematic; after all, in appeared in Esquire, not in the Journal of Media Studies. |
| | The Snout Scale, then, is designed primarily to assess which talk-show hosts egotistically "hog" the microphone, leaving less airtime for their guests' responses. |
| | On late-night shows, timing began the moment the guest reached the couch. |
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