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The Interview
What do Rudyard Kipling and his wife comment about the interview?
Rudyard Kipling’s wife Caroline writes in her diary for October 14, 1892 that their day was wrecked by two reporters from Boston. She reports her husband saying. Why do I refuse to be interviewed? Because it is immoral! It is a crime, just as much as of a crime as an offence against my person, as an assault, and just as much merits punishment. It is cowardly and vile. No respectable man would ask it, much less give it.
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Do you think Umberto Eco likes being interviewed? Give reasons for your opinion.
How does Eco find the time to write so much?
What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?
Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?
What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, ‘The Name of the Rose’?
Talk about any interview you watched on television or read in a newspaper. How did it add to your understanding of the celebrity, the interviewer and the field of the celebrity?
The medium you like best for an interview, print, radio, or television.
Every famous person has a right to his or her privacy. Interviewers sometimes embarrass celebrities with very personal questions.
If the interviewer Mukund Padmanabhan had not got the space in the newspaper to reproduce the interview verbatim, he might have been asked to produce a short report of the interview with the salient points.
Write this report for him.
[The teacher should be able to help the pupils in what to include and what can be omitted.] [We could also provide a short report of an interview as a sample.]
In what way have the interviews become a commonplace of journalism?
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What has happened over the last 130 years in respect of the interview?
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