Gawker ambushes Bill O’Reilly’s ambusher
After several weeks of trying, Gawker finally caught up to Fox News’ Chief Ambush Journalist, Jesse Watters, to interview him about his ambush tactics. Unfortunately, the confrontation was rather anti-climatic.
At about 8:45 a.m., Watters walked out on to his driveway with his wife, Noelle, and we hopped out to talk to him. When Watters ambushes people, he rushes at them in a deliberate attempt to rattle them, and asks hostile questions. Not being complete dicks, we decided to approach it differently. We introduced ourselves, said hello, and calmly approached him. He got in his car and drove away. We could have engaged some of the tactics that Fox has used in these situationsâ€â€by say, running to meet him at his car and positioning ourselves so that he couldn’t close the doorâ€â€but we didn’t want to, because we weren’t trying to engineer a confrontation. We were trying to engineer an interview.
