Media Training and Presentation Training Guru TJ Walker Gives Insights On Public Speaking and Media

TJ’s Insights

March 28, 2005

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Bad and Worse Reviews

If you speak long enough to groups in-person or on TV or radio, you are likely to offend somebody seriously. If you are on a TV or radio show that has a call-in format, you might be called a fascist or a communist, simply for expressing a mild preference for a mainstream political figure. If you are giving a speech, someone in the audience may ask you a threatening question, or worse, try to shout you down.

These problems occur more frequently for politicians and political commentators (as a former political commentator, I received my share of death threats, on-air rants, and Nazi-sympathizing stalkers), but they can also happen to local business people, developers and civic leaders.

Here are a few tips to get you through the tough moments:

1. Smile. Act as though you aren’t upset. (Your detractors are trying to make you get angry.)
2. Be polite. Don’t fight fire with fire.
3. Humor should be your only form of attack.
4. Use your attackers’ rudeness as an opportunity to look like a class act.
5. Don’t hang up on callers or shut off the microphone of a critic. (let somebody else do that)
6. Use even more humor—to make fun of yourself.
7. If someone is rude or obnoxious one or twice in a public forum, forget about it.
8. If an audience member is rude to you in private emails and personal phone calls, alert the police. Stalkers killed talk radio host Alan Berg in 1984, so you can never be too careful when it comes to how unstable people might react to your opinions.

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TJ Walker
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