Same boat as the audience

A tribute to Larry King, as I'm thinking about today. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Back in the mid-2000s, I got to know Larry King a little bit.

He was still doing Larry King Live on CNN then, based out of the CNN studio near Union Station in Washington, DC. I was working as the lead reporting assistant to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post at the time, and Larry often had Bob on the show.

So we’d take a cab across town, and I’d watch Bob and Larry do their thing in the dark studio—and I’d try to stay out of the way.

King passed away earlier this year, at age 87. And I suppose it’s because we’re launching the new edition of the crowd-sourced video series today that I’ve been thinking a bit about what I learned from him.

Honestly, this was a great juxtaposition for me: King and Woodward.

Both were always excellent interviewers, but the big difference is that King interviewed people with a live audience, while Woodward is like an empathetic machine—doing one interview after another after another, usually behind closed doors.

(Last September—which, I grant you, seems like…