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Except police/prosecutors can grill subjects of investigations for hours. Annoy a politician or public official and a journalist's interview is over. An intervi
by Bulkington 13y ago
Except police/prosecutors can grill subjects of investigations for hours. Annoy a politician or public official and a journalist's interview is over. An interview is a chess match: It has to be strategic, and even if the subject anticiaptes a trap you still have to lead him there. In the case of a draw (most typical outcome) the journalist loses.
- bobwaycott 13y agoYep, this is unfortunately true. This raises the odd question in my head of how much more interesting our campy republic would be if elected officials could not schedule & control their usage of the media, but instead were required (as part of the job description) to submit to such questioning by the press. The problem, I think, lies in the ways that these interviews typically are organized around pre-defined and submitted questions that control the conversation and allow for preparation.