"Are there any circumstances under which you would agree to talk to the press?" - wilde flower

If by “the press” you mean commercial media, then yes, there are some circumstances in which I would consider it; but not for “the press” as in so-called “news agencies”. News agencies don't just report the news (i.e. information), as they like to claim, as much as they manufacture it. I'm not claiming they invent the information that they report (though, they have and regularily do that too), but they do routinely “slant” and “package” the information in order to “sell it” to the weak-minded masses. This is why I not only won't talk to “the press” (i.e. “news agencies”), but I seldom watch (or read, or listen to) “the news” either.

I have also refused numerous requests from other commerical media producers for interviews for the same reason. However, I would consider an interview, or participation in general, with a media producer that did not cater to the media market, such as a PBS program, or public radio program like NPR. I might also consider doing a marketted program interview with someone like Werner Herzog, who has produced a series of programs called On Death Row. I respect the way he acknowledges his personal feelings about the death penalty at the beginning of his programs, but then reports the facts and presents his interviewers without packaging or slanting. He seems honest, and we are fortunate in this care case that his programs contain content that some network executives think they can sell, even though they weren't manufactured for the marketplace. They are raw truth; which is what I try to make this blog about as well.