Saturday, May 14, 2005

The questions reporters don't ask

If I seem to be picking on the White House press corps, it is because -- unlike most journalists -- their work is out there for all of us to see on television and then review more carefully in transcript form.
And once again, they presented a dispiriting litany of self-defeating questions, the usual suspects that represent a kind of interviewing recidivism identified by John Sawatsky, a Canadian journalist and interviewing specialist who now works as ESPN's interviewing coach. Among the repeat offenders in the lineup of questions posed to President Bush...

No comments: