Re: the language watch continues

["Brian T. Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

At 12:54 PM 9/7/00 -0400, Dave Faneuf wrote:
>Agreed, reporters should report news and not make it, however this was an
>interview in which it is the reporters responsibility to draw out as much
>information about a candidate as possible in a short period of time so
>throwing out questions like that are fair game given

It was a cheap shot by a low rent reporter.  The interview should not 
consist of curve balls designed to throw someone off balance and make them 
look like an idiot.  An interviewer can control the tone of an interview by 
how they conduct it.  This interviewer chose to make himself look 
impressive by blind siding someone.  I'd actually like to see some of the 
same tactics tried on the talking heads that obsess on this type of thing.

Of course, if it were a Democratic candidate that was blind sided, it would 
have been a part of the vast Republican conspiracy.

Brian

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