phoner

The unrelenting schedule —��radio interviews, TV sit-downs and phoners with publications as far away as the United Kingdom —��sounds a lot like Clinton’s unforgiving campaign schedule.

The “phoner” is back, and no one in network TV news is too happy about it.

Except in news emergencies, producers usually avoid phoners because television is a visual medium — a face-to-face discussion between a newsmaker and questioner is preferable to a picture of an anchor listening to a disembodied voice.

He recalls “days of phoners, like: ‘Do you have a message for your fans in Brazil?’

I have lost to the till phoners and the film interrupters.