Vox populi Vox populi American television personality Steve Allen as the host of "The Tonight Show" further developed the "man on the street" interviews and audience-participation comedy breaks that have become commonplace on late-night TV. Usually the interviewees are shown in public places, and supposed to be giving spontaneous opinions in a chance encounter – unrehearsed persons, not selected in any way. As such, journalists almost always refer to them as the abbreviated "vox pop". In U.S. broadcast journalism it is often referred to as a man on the street interview or MOTS. The results of such an interview are unpredictable at
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