I was waiting to hear what Steve Leer, Purdue University would have to say in his presentation this morning.

His topic is “Interviewing with the Media: Be Careful Little Mouth What You Say.” Instead of the interactive TurningPoint clicker he’s having us write our answers to questions on a notepad he handed out to us. The notepads promote Ag Answers, a joint project of Ohio State University and Purdue.

One of his first questions had to do with the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of the media. Most of the answers were negative. Then he proceeded to make sure everyone understands that no matter what they think of the media they’re going to have to deal with it at some point and it’s good to be ready.