A number of years ago I was asked to do an interview for the BBC while attending iDate in London. I turned up, completely frazzled after an 8 hour journey and did the interview with Zoe Kleinman. The interview went really well, and you can still read it at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41518352 Yesterday there was an announcement about Instagram taking measures to help fight sextortion, and I had a call from the BBC asking if I was available to do a quick interview with Zoe about my thoughts on it. Of course I accepted, and about an hour later we were in a Zoom chat. Interviews like this are easy. You read through all the information, give the best answers you can and usually redo a question or two as they ask you to give an extended answer. Sure enough, 15 minutes later the interview is in the bag. I'm told it'll be on the 6 o'clock news and off I go with my day. About an hour before it's due to be aired I get a text message saying they've had to unfortunately drop the piece due to "the Gaza news". It happens. No big deal. Curious about what this news was, I go to look at the BBC's website.
Umm, yeah, that DEFINITELY trumps my interview!
There'll always be other interviews. The important thing is that they still think of me when they need a talking head about a scam story. The funny thing is that I was on a call to another journalist about a completely unrelated documentary on sextortion when the text came through. Scams will never go away, and neither will the media wanting to do stories on it. So one door closed as another one opened.