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xoxoxoBruce · 11-17-2005, 09:37 PM

What? Are you shilling for Transcripts.TV, now?

Maybe they're not part of the story but certainly direct where the story will go. Because of time restraints on broadcast news the whole story is never told, you have to go to print or the internet to get the whole story. Even then it usually requires multiple sources.

So broadcast journalists have to direct the interview toward the important points. That means there is a risk of the reporter guiding the story away from some points too. We have to weigh the reporters questions as well as the politicians answers.

If a reporter doesn’t ask the questions I want answers to, it becomes non-news unless (s)he brings up something I was completely unaware of. But that still leaves me with questions unanswered.

There’s another thread about communicating with elected representatives and most people were dissatisfied with the answers they got. It’s easy to bullshit and baffle an individual in writing.

But when a reporter risks their ability to get another interview by asking the tough questions, the politician knows his answers will be weighed by thousands, maybe millions, of voters plus recorded for posterity.

11-17-2005, 09:37 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	What? Are you shilling for Transcripts.TV, now? Maybe they're not part of the story but certainly direct where the story will go. Because of time restraints on broadcast news the whole story is never told, you have to go to print or the internet to get the whole story. Even then it usually requires multiple sources. So broadcast journalists have to direct the interview toward the important points. That means there is a risk of the reporter guiding the story away from some points too. We have to weigh the reporters questions as well as the politicians answers. If a reporter doesn’t ask the questions I want answers to, it becomes non-news unless (s)he brings up something I was completely unaware of. But that still leaves me with questions unanswered. There’s another thread about communicating with elected representatives and most people were dissatisfied with the answers they got. It’s easy to bullshit and baffle an individual in writing. But when a reporter risks their ability to get another interview by asking the tough questions, the politician knows his answers will be weighed by thousands, maybe millions, of voters plus recorded for posterity. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.