Debate Moderating: Harder Than it Looks

Wednesday, 03 October 2012 | by Pat's Picks

Jim Lehrer is getting ready to “walk down a knife blade.” That’s how he’s described moderating a presidential debate, a job the Washington Post says is much harder than it looks. Not only do you have to ask the right questions with 60 million people watching, you must seem “unobtrusive, yet sharp and insistent…And the whole time, there’s a guy yelling in your earpiece to get to the next question.”

SOURCE: Washington Post