"When Sarah Ferguson gave University of Tehran Professor Mohammad Marandi the discursive freedom that most heads of state never receive on Western television..."
I'm not sure she meant to give him much freedom; it was a freedom he secured for himself. She cut him off repeatedly, and was hostile in the framing of her questions from the start and throughout. It was a lecture concealed as an interview and it backfired on her.
I've watched Sarah Ferguson's interviews for the past two years, so I know her style well. That's why this interview stood out. Professor Marandi wasn't given more room than anyone else; he simply knew how to keep it.
Sarah pushed, interrupted, and steered the conversation as she always does, but he kept bringing it back to his own arguments. That's what made the exchange so compelling: not a different interviewer, but a guest who refused to let the conversation be defined for him.
By the way, even taking him to 730 would have been enough to open a much bigger conversation and challenge how many Australians and the wider Global North see the issue.
The Murdoch press headlined Prof Marandis' "rude response" to Fergusons' attacks, but in my opinion Sarah Ferguson was the one being offensive. The ABC is supposed to be indepenent but they have been cowed into toeing the official line by repeated funding cuts and threats of more to come from the Govt. And the Australian Govt is an obsequious vassal of the Amerikan Empire - AUKUS anybody.
Most Australians have probably never even heard of Prof Marandi because "we don't talk about politics 'round here mate".
"When Sarah Ferguson gave University of Tehran Professor Mohammad Marandi the discursive freedom that most heads of state never receive on Western television..."
I'm not sure she meant to give him much freedom; it was a freedom he secured for himself. She cut him off repeatedly, and was hostile in the framing of her questions from the start and throughout. It was a lecture concealed as an interview and it backfired on her.
I've watched Sarah Ferguson's interviews for the past two years, so I know her style well. That's why this interview stood out. Professor Marandi wasn't given more room than anyone else; he simply knew how to keep it.
Sarah pushed, interrupted, and steered the conversation as she always does, but he kept bringing it back to his own arguments. That's what made the exchange so compelling: not a different interviewer, but a guest who refused to let the conversation be defined for him.
By the way, even taking him to 730 would have been enough to open a much bigger conversation and challenge how many Australians and the wider Global North see the issue.
The Murdoch press headlined Prof Marandis' "rude response" to Fergusons' attacks, but in my opinion Sarah Ferguson was the one being offensive. The ABC is supposed to be indepenent but they have been cowed into toeing the official line by repeated funding cuts and threats of more to come from the Govt. And the Australian Govt is an obsequious vassal of the Amerikan Empire - AUKUS anybody.
Most Australians have probably never even heard of Prof Marandi because "we don't talk about politics 'round here mate".