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.
