> within two month you hear the same author on 5 different podcasts, and the author says the same thing on each of them. They’ve received media training to do

> within two month you hear the same author on 5 different podcasts, and the author says the same thing on each of them. They’ve received media training to do exactly that, to repeat their main talking points no matter what the interview questions are, and normal journalists are trained to ignore it and just move on to the next question, so it usually works for them both (but us listeners and readers are left with the situation you describe). Sometimes, though, the people asking the questions aren’t willing to ignore it, and if the interviewee does not catch on to this and adjust their answers accordingly, the interview can go disastrously wrong: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/woody-harrelson-reddit-ama https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/woody-harrelson-reddit...