Why is it that major business and political business leaders often insist on doing recorded TV interviews instead of live interviews?

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The people there after seeing my work, they asked me, you are such a good artist, why do you insist on doing assistant work?

CNN: Interview with Nelson Shin

His other work has been equally bad, and several times he has been in trouble, because he will not listen, but will insist on doing his work in his own way.

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Montenegrin officials say these are Serbian slurs and insist they are doing all they can to clamp down on organised crime.

ECONOMIST: Montenegro and the European Union

The House Republicans made a decision to back away from the kind of brinksmanship that was very concerning to the markets, very concerning to business, very concerning to the American people -- the simple proposition that they would insist on cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, in return for doing their job, paying their bills.

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