Post-Interview Review

On Sunday night, a group of my Montecito neighbors gathered with animal activist Gretchen Lieff at her La Lieff tasting room in the Funk Zone with a three-man crew from U.K.’s ITV, led by Washington, D.C. news editor Alex Chandler, to watch the Duke of Sussex’s controversial half-hour interview with Cooper and give our thoughts and insights on it after the show.

The Montecito segment was broadcast the following day to 10 million viewers in Britain.

Among those giving widely varying views, some highly critical, others sympathetic, were Brendon Twigden, writer Robert Adams, symphony president Kathryn Martin, and Fest Forums producer Laurie Kirby.

After bunking at the Montecito Inn for the weekend, having flown in from the East Coast, the tony TV triumvirate flew to Moscow, Idaho, to cover the highly publicized murder of four students and the arrest of the alleged assailant Bryan Kohberger.