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Chuck U.
Apr 24, 2013, 12:21:11 PM4/24/13
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The Worst Interviewers in the History of Broadcasting
(CBS)
Do you remember when you were young and you were giving a speech in
front of your class, and your teacher would whisper to you the lines
that you forgot? Your teacher was trying to spare you embarrassment.
This is called facilitating.
Welcome to CBS’ new style of interviewing. Facilitating is not
really interviewing. In the corporate media, interviewing has gone
from Mike Wallace to Scott Pelley. It used to be like a lawyer cross-
examining a defendant in a courtroom. Now, it’s like a mother
coaching a child. This new style of interviewing could make me become
a Futilitarian. I want to pluck out my nose hairs!
This is how facilitating interviewing works. You ask
softball questions that are meaningless. You are interviewee-
friendly. You smile like you are the interviewee’s hippomanic
B.F.F. You take strolls together through the park and exchange
platitudes. Now this is the part that drives me up the proverbial
wall: you repeat whatever your interviewee just said. Then you ask
obvious questions and make inane remarks.
The notorious Captain Obvious is Scott Pelley. He should retire
immediately! His robotic facilitating interviews cast a heavy shroud
on the reputation of broadcasting. Watching and listening to him on
T.V. makes me want to crawl under the couch and go into a fetal
position! The last time I saw Pelley was on 60 Minutes. He was
interviewing Boston Police Commissioner, Ed Davis. (By the way, I did
find my lost reading glasses, under the couch.)
The following is a sample of the facilitating interviewing
style. This is a CBS reporter interviewing a serial killer in prison:
Reporter: So you were found guilty in court for murdering 27 women.
Killer: Yes.
Reporter: So does that make you a murder?
Killer: What a stupid question!
Reporter: So you think I asked you a stupid question!
Killer: Are you retarded! What the F—K?
Reporter: Do you feel like you’re trapped in prison?
Killer: Actually I feel trapped in this room with you!
Reporter: Oh? Are my questions too tough for you? I’m sorry, the
public must know!
Killer: The only thing the public will know is that you are a dope!
Reporter: When you eat breakfast, is it in the morning?
Killer: How in the hell did you get this job?
Reporter: So, you want to know how I got this job?
Killer: Are you wearing a hearing aid?
Reporter: Am I wearing a hearing aid?
Killer: What are you? An F----kin parrot?
Reporter: Why did you kill those women?
Killer: Because they asked stupid questions like you do!
Reporter: So, they asked stupid questions?
Killer: Guards!
The Worst Interviewers in the History of Broadcasting
(CBS)
Do you remember when you were young and you were giving a speech in
front of your class, and your teacher would whisper to you the lines
that you forgot? Your teacher was trying to spare you embarrassment.
This is called facilitating.
Welcome to CBS’ new style of interviewing. Facilitating is not
really interviewing. In the corporate media, interviewing has gone
from Mike Wallace to Scott Pelley. It used to be like a lawyer cross-
examining a defendant in a courtroom. Now, it’s like a mother
coaching a child. This new style of interviewing could make me become
a Futilitarian. I want to pluck out my nose hairs!
This is how facilitating interviewing works. You ask
softball questions that are meaningless. You are interviewee-
friendly. You smile like you are the interviewee’s hippomanic
B.F.F. You take strolls together through the park and exchange
platitudes. Now this is the part that drives me up the proverbial
wall: you repeat whatever your interviewee just said. Then you ask
obvious questions and make inane remarks.
The notorious Captain Obvious is Scott Pelley. He should retire
immediately! His robotic facilitating interviews cast a heavy shroud
on the reputation of broadcasting. Watching and listening to him on
T.V. makes me want to crawl under the couch and go into a fetal
position! The last time I saw Pelley was on 60 Minutes. He was
interviewing Boston Police Commissioner, Ed Davis. (By the way, I did
find my lost reading glasses, under the couch.)
The following is a sample of the facilitating interviewing
style. This is a CBS reporter interviewing a serial killer in prison:
Reporter: So you were found guilty in court for murdering 27 women.
Killer: Yes.
Reporter: So does that make you a murder?
Killer: What a stupid question!
Reporter: So you think I asked you a stupid question!
Killer: Are you retarded! What the F—K?
Reporter: Do you feel like you’re trapped in prison?
Killer: Actually I feel trapped in this room with you!
Reporter: Oh? Are my questions too tough for you? I’m sorry, the
public must know!
Killer: The only thing the public will know is that you are a dope!
Reporter: When you eat breakfast, is it in the morning?
Killer: How in the hell did you get this job?
Reporter: So, you want to know how I got this job?
Killer: Are you wearing a hearing aid?
Reporter: Am I wearing a hearing aid?
Killer: What are you? An F----kin parrot?
Reporter: Why did you kill those women?
Killer: Because they asked stupid questions like you do!
Reporter: So, they asked stupid questions?
Killer: Guards!
NotMe
May 4, 2013, 8:19:30 PM5/4/13
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"Chuck U." <not4...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I recall more than one instance of Mike Wallace and co using loaded question
and the whipping the responses in the editing room.
I don't trust the media as far as I can p*ss on them.
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