Mr. Casey told me he missed the call, but saw what happened with his own eyes. It also happens that Mr. Emerson had left journalism for several years to run his own advertising firm and that Mr. Smith had at one point been a client. Mr. Casey says he asked Mr. Emerson if he’d be willing to come on the program and discuss it all, but Mr. Emerson declined. “I had a hot coffee in my hand and I came very close to dropping it,” Mr. Smith told me. Mr. Casey is satisfied with the result.

Source: New York Times February 17, 2017 15:00 UTC