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The Interview

Question
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Enumerate “An interview is a supremely serviceable medium of communication.”

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What is an interview and how do celebrities find favour with it?

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Explain ‘Denis Brain’s statement “Almost everything of moment reaches us through one man asking questions of another.”

Solution

An interview is a formal meeting, interaction or a kind of discussion with some one. In other sense it is the best mode of deducing truth, reality, opinion and viewpoint of people under way. It is a kind of conversation which aims at obtaining information. Especially one is a journalist who asks questions from some important public man and the same is published later on. It has got a wider implication both for the employer and the employee. A little over 130 years, it has become a commonplace of journalism. Every literate person has read or watched an interview at some point of his life. Over the years several thousands celebrities have been interviewed but some of them do not favour it.

An interview is a sort of screening, interaction and introspection. In the present day society, people are chased continuously for the interview. In form, function, method and merit people differ in their viewpoint but it is the highest form of truth. It is an art in practice. It is a supremely serviceable medium of communication in the modern age. It provides us the most vivid impressions of our contemporaries. Denis Brain has appropriately said that almost everything reaches us through one man asking questions of another. Hence the interviewer holds a position of unprecedented power and influence.

Some More Questions From The Interview Chapter

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?

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?