The Media Interview

A comment by one of presidential candidate John McCain’s advisors, quoted in a Fortune magazine article, has created quite a stir and raises an interesting issue about the transparency of media interviews.
Here’s part of the LA Times story on the comments by Charlie Black:
Then, the longtime political pro got a bit too honest. Asked about [...]

Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin simply got up and left in the middle of an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row program, leaving presenter John Wilson and the band’s drummer Will Champion to carry on:
Wilson: Do you start with that idea, Chris… [sound in background] did you start with the song Viva La Vida, [...]

I heard a headline on CNN the other day that made me curious. New York Rep. Peter King allegedly said there were too many mosques in the United States, but he claimed he was being taken out of context. The remarks were said to be in an interview with Politico.com, so I immediately [...]

I’ve posted before about the fact that publishing things on a blog is akin to having an interview published in a magazine or aired on radio or TV - be prepared to have yourself quoted by others.
Now it’s common practice for journalists to write stories quoting someone from a variety of other sources, but the [...]

One of the big buzz words these days on the internet is transparency - and the posting of interview transcripts is a commonly touted as a key to providing transparency.
As I was reading Powells.com’s online interview with Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch, his description of the origins of this venerable literary magazine struck a chord [...]

Mark Glaser in the Online Journalism Review
Posted: 2004-10-12
More and more, blogs are giving sources the power to strike back and making journalists think twice about what they run in a story and how they conduct an interview. Case in point: Billionaire technology entrepreneur Mark Cuban, who also owns the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks basketball team, launched [...]