I also watched the interview and having experienced Jeremy Paxman's Interview technique I would like to say that he held back on a lot of things. From the interview style it looked as though the questions were vetted by Gates before the interview (not just because of the way that he interviewed him but because of the way that Gates was so calm, it was like he knew what he was going to answer before the question was asked). Paxman's style is to go for the jugular in a big way but he does it descretly. He didn't even make an attempt to attack Gates.
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I also watched the interview and having experienced Jeremy Paxman's Interview technique I would like to say that he held back on a lot of things. From the interview style it looked as though the questions were vetted by Gates before the interview (not just because of the way that he interviewed him but because of the way that Gates was so calm, it was like he knew what he was going to answer before the question was asked). Paxman's style is to go for the jugular in a big way but he does it descretly. He didn't even make an attempt to attack Gates.