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The Interview
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In spite of the ‘drawbacks’ of the interview, what are some positive views on it?

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How can you say that the interview is a supremely serviceable medium of communication?

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any celebrities discard the idea of being interviewed but over the years it has become a commonplace feature of journalism. It is a supremely serviceable medium of communication. It gives the most vivid impressions of our contemporaries. While interacting with the other we can attain the truth in its true and the simplest form.

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Some More Questions From The Interview Chapter

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?

Why do most celebrities despise being interviewed?

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Why do some great writers dislike being interviewed?

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Why do some celebrity writers hate to be interviewed?

What was Lewis Carroll’s opinion of interviews and autographs?

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What was Lewis Carroll’s attitudes towards being interviewed?

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What drawback of interviews have been pointed out by Lewis Carroll?

What do Rudyard Kipling and his wife comment about the interview?