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Paxman

/ ˈpæksmən /

noun

  1. PaxmanJeremy (Dickson)1950MBritishWRITING: journalistFILMS AND TV: broadcasterWRITING: author Jeremy ( Dickson ). born 1950, British journalist, broadcaster, and author, noted esp for his political interviews


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Do poets have a responsibility to speak with a raised voice—the sort Paxman is likely thinking of, one for the ages?

Paxman suspects that former British Home Secretary Michael Howard had interfered in an internal civil-service disciplinary matter.

British TV is famous for its confrontational interviewers: the Jeremy Paxman method, on display here in a clip from 1997.

The latest came from Jeremy Paxman, a BBC interviewer, on May 23.

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