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The Interview
Describe opinions for and against the interview as are given in the lesson.
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How do many literate people take interview? Point out their viewpoints.
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According to Christopher Silvester why do some important people dislike to be interviewed while others think that an interview is essential in public life.
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Why do the celebrities despise and condemn ‘interview’? Describe their viewpoint.
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Interpret: “Interview is like the thumbprints on the windpipe.”
Opinions on the interview vary considerably. Describe some of the positive and negative views on interviews.
An interview has become an indispensable feature of journalism today. Some call it a great art. In the same way, some celebrities, criminals and victims are interviewed. The media interviews celebrities if they are involved in some care. The celebrities despise the interview as an unwarranted intrusion on their lives. It is like stealing of their souls and diminishes and tarnishes their status. Some people like V. S. Naipaul are wounded by interviews and feel a part of their personalities stolen. Lewis Carroll was said to have a just horror of the interviewer and he never consented to be interviewed, Caroline, the wife of Rudyard Kipling said that an interview is vile, crime and all offence. No respectable person, would ask it, much less give it. On the other hand H. G. Wells referred it to be an inter-viewing or deal. Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow took the interview like the thumb-prints on his windpipe. Thus opinions on the interview vary considerably.
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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?
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