The art of abusing people. Of ambushing them with questions, following them with questions, hounding them with questions, driving them to their fucking graves with questions. It’s sort of being like a photographer, except no ones' killed any royalty doing it…yet.
I don't think Garth EnisWarren Ellis coined it in Transmetropolitian, but that's definitely where I heard it first. A popular method of British media harassment.
Unrelated but for some reason at first glance I always parse your profile pic as