Damn man How many times is this non story going to be posted today?
Every candidate or incumbent gives a list of questions to interviewers.
Every. One.
Do you see that as a good thing?
Do you think scripted interviews inspire confidence in voters when the current concern is his ability to think on his feet?
Those people don’t understand how media interviews work. The less time a person has to be interviewed (i.e. the more responsibilities / power they have), the more likely the interview has scripted prompts.
This is basic media production.
Which ignores the second question I asked.
Because it’s not worth considering when you understand how interviews work.
Okay.
Go grab 2 microphones. Sure SM58s are the workhorse of the industry. $100 each, so that’s $200.
Get 1 pair of Sony MDR7506 (workhorse) headphones. $100.
Now get an interface, Scarlet 2i2 has 2x line-in ports for easy use, and a Firewire -> USB. Another $200
Then download the REAPER audio program, unless you wanna try Audacity (which sucks), free trial for however long you want, or about $60 for the license.
$500-600 investment isn’t too bad for actual good quality audio. Please don’t skimp on it.If you’re thinking of adding in cameras and a switcher and control board and mixer and graphics etc., plan on adding at minimum $2000 more to your budget.
Now, you don’t really need an actual studio, or audio treatment of the walls. You can do an interview in your kitchen if you feel like it, no issue.
I want you to schedule 5 interviews next week, at precisely the same time, let’s say 6pm local (wherever you are). Then 5 more interviews at the same exact time the following 3 weeks. Get you a whole 20 interviews set up with different people of different walks of life. You’re gonna schedule the whole thing to be an hour long. For a grand total of 20 interviews all scheduled to be at 6pm (or whatever time you choose) local time.
Now make sure you have your levels (the way things sound, ensuring not too loud or soft) working when they get there, you’ll likely want your guests to get there before the scheduled interview time, at least 5-10 minutes prior, so they can actually ARRIVE to your recording location. Then you’ll want them to talk to the microphone to ensure they sound good, not too loud or soft, and also instruct them on basic mic technique (your audience is IN the microphone). But, alas, you’ll need to constantly let them know to speak into the mic, probably by pointing at it while they speak.
You could bring in a friend or family member to pay attention to the audio info on the REAPER / Audacity digital workstation, or you could try to do it yourself while also making sure you have enough questions to fill an hour, but also allowing free-form thought to happen, because more people really prefer a conversational tone in audio formats. Make sure you’re interesting, and entertaining enough for people to listen to, but also have proper probing questions that can challenge or otherwise get your interviewee off balance. Audiences love it when the question is a hard ball, and the answerer isn’t super prepared for it; makes for great entertainment.
Now do this 20 times in a 4 week period (just remember, you have 24 hours in a day like the rest of us). And come back and let me know.
Even tho I’ve already done it before.
So uh, I went to school for audio production, while I didn’t pursue that career path all of my friends from college are currently in the AV industry, senior AV admins for companies ranging from Amazon to radio. I have a personal recording setup that I am teaching my daughter Reaper with. I have an intimate understanding of what it takes. ROFL at you listing pricing as if that is relevant to the conversation at hand.
Is my understanding of your point that it’s very hard to manage interviews, so much so that if you have the opportunity to interview the President of the United States you need assistance planning the questions because of your oh so busy schedule? The more you talk the less credible your argument becomes.
Also 95% of what you typed out doesn’t matter in a professional setting as the person doing the interview is not the producer or the engineer. Just utterly irrelevant.
Sure sm7b are closer to 400 each.
I know how interviews work. I’ve been on many for jobs and they’re never the same scripted questions. Sure, some sameish ones pop up but I’m also never giving them in advance or been given them in advance.
A presidential media interview IS a fucking job interview. A very public one and @Sunforged@lemmy.ml and @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org aren’t wrong. The mold should broken at some point. Continuing the tradition just because “that’s how they’ve traditionally worked” is a bullshit excuse. I want to know how they can handle a question about their potential job on the fly because they sure as hell have to respond to it on the fly when shit actually happens.
Good luck trying to break the mold when you only have 24 hours in a day and more than 1 interview a day, plus other responsibilities.
You got solutions? Because I’m all ears.Limit the question(s) and/or only one specific channel that is publicly accessible to all citizens OTA would be a start - PBS maybe. Allow for repeat viewings throughout the week so everyone has a chance to catch it. The major news networks will pick up what they want anyway for sound bytes regardless of multiple or a singular interview.
Repeat at intervals as needed with different questions from a left, right, and moderate perspective. Have an independent panel choose the questions for the interviewer to ask from a pool of questions that are known to be big/hot topics the public cares about.
There’s no need for a circuit. Let the president give their answers officially there and run the country/campaign where they need to.
Which is why it was paramount that they break that mould.
You need to change the world of time. Because that’s what media interviews work around.
I’m pretty sure that a presidential campaign that’s in terrible shape can make time to reassure voters if they’re serious about restoring confidence. Not doing so is either irresponsible or an admission that they know they / he can’t do better.
The less time a person has to be interviewed
the more likely the interview has scripted prompts.
Does answering unscripted questions take longer?
Like, he doesn’t have time for unscripted questions, but he does have time for scripted questions? How does that work?
Coming up with questions pre-interview is a commonplace thing. And if you aren’t someone with questions in the bag, you’re not doing the job right.
Sure, but shouldn’t the interviewer write the questions, not the interviewee?
Compare this to the only current alternative. Do people think that trump is ever subject to unapproved questions? Fox and others only throw softballs. He didn’t even answer the questions in the debate. Biden did and I learned more about his policies.
Current news media acts like it values facts and reasoned discourse, but it really likes ratings and advertising. I don’t care what the “editorial staff” has to say anymore. They’re not fair-minded independent journalists; they’re literally paid by advertisers. They might as well put product logos all over the WSJ and the NY Times.
“I got several questions, eight of them, and the four that were chosen were the ones that I approved,” she added.
Ingram didn’t answer, but separately told the Associated Press on Saturday that Biden aides sent him a list of four questions in advance, adding, “There was no back and forth.”
He said while the predetermined list had given him pause, he moved forward because “this was an opportunity to talk to the president of the United States.”
NPR has confirmed that the Biden campaign — as opposed to the White House — engaged with the hosts ahead of their interviews.
Biden campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt defended the move in a statement, saying it’s “not at all an uncommon practice for interviewees to share topics they would prefer” and that the questions asked of Biden were “relevant to the news of the day.”
“We do not condition interviews on acceptance of these questions, and hosts are always free to ask the questions they think will best inform their listeners,” she added.
In the wake of the controversy, the campaign decided to stop offering suggested questions, a source familiar with the campaign’s media booking operation said, speaking on condition of anonymity to comment on private discussions.
Seems they were fine until others got upset? This headline is once again misleading. But by all means, let the media divide us lmao
Jesus fucking christ, Biden. This is the opposite of inspiring confidence.
Don’t give up Joe! You can do it! You got more votes than Obama!
It’s been 3 total that they fed questions to
You and all your other buddies have been running with this story as a gotcha moment, but in reality, it is absolutely nothing. Gotta keep pushing that narrative in any way you can, right?
NY Post is a conservative rag and a tabloid. Try again.
Typical BlueMAGA to dismiss something based on source rather than checking the validity of the story
You lose all credibility by using that term. You’ve exposed yourself nicely. Good job.
I don’t really give a fuck about credibility from supporters of the right-wing duopoly, that’s kind of like you being concerned about what Republicans think about you
Because that makes absolute sense. Good job, buddy.
Every minute of the presidency is carefully scripted, every person who wants to be president is insane, and nobody who should be president will be allowed. Any questions?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Philadelphia radio host has parted ways with her station after interviewing President Biden with questions provided by his campaign, a move prohibited by many newsrooms including her own.
Andrea Lawful-Sanders is one of two journalists — both hosts of Black radio shows in critical swing states — who acknowledged over the weekend that the Biden camp had fed them questions for interviews earlier in the week.
Host Victor Blackwell pointed out that each asked Biden “essentially the same” four questions about his accomplishments, debate performance, the stakes of the election and message to apathetic voters.
Biden has engaged in fewer press conferences and media interviews than any of the last seven presidents at this point in their terms, according to an analysis shared with NPR by presidential scholar Martha Joynt Kumar.
“The interview featured pre-determined questions provided by the White House, which violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners,” Lomax wrote.
Lomax went on to say that the station is not a “mouthpiece for the Biden or any other Administration.” She said WURD Radio seeks to “grow from this incident,” and committed to internally reviewing its policies and practices in the hopes of reinforcing its independence and regaining listeners’ trust.
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