Why network publicists cut off journo Bobbin at six questions

Washington Post
Critics at the semiannual TV Press Tour have noticed that any time Tribune Media Services senior feature writer Jay Bobbin gets in seven questions in one session, it spells death for the show, reports Lisa de Moraes. She writes in her second column item: “Some network publicists know about the Jay Bobbin Seven Questions Rule and, because people are naturally superstitious in an industry in which no one really understands what separates hits from flops and hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake, they will cut off a Q&A session after Bobbin’s sixth question.”