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Loading ...Will, you’re selling me short. I was granted a whole three and a half minutes with Dravid. It was the other journo from the London freesheet that was given two (such is the power of The Times…)
Got a minute or ten?
By Will last year, mid-July Leave a comment on this post
I had the good fortune of (finally) meeting Patrick Kidd for lunch today and, among other things, he told us about his interview with Rahul Dravid yesterday (certainly worth reading). He managed 800 words - a fine feat considering he was afforded just two minutes with the India captain. Two. He and another journalist were given five “precious” minutes with him which never ceases to annoy me. With such a short time frame, you often end up firing questions at them, nodding furiously but not listening sufficiently, and it becomes a barrage for the interviewee. Of course, neither party - least of all those being interviewed - have hours and hours spare. But all we’re asking for is 10 minutes. That’s a fair amount of time in which to conduct a decent interview and get to know the human behind the sound-bites.
In Ireland, I was lucky to speak to a number of the players and the restrictions were far less. Rare and priceless. I wonder if and when that’ll ever happen? Anyway - go and read Patrick’s piece and of course his blog, Line and Length, immediately.
Tags: interviewing, journalism, patrick-kidd, questions, rahul-dravid |
One Response to “Got a minute or ten?”
July 19th, 2007 at 8.47 pm
