Incurious George:Bad Interviewing
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Incurious George:Bad Interviewing
George is the WORST interviewer. When last nights guest Glenn Kimball mentioned Gunnar Thompson (a protege of Thor Heyerdahl) tried to convince scholars in China that their map was real I was expecting George to show a splinter of curiosity and ask him to elaborate, but nothing! It seemed George had blinders on and wanted to talk only about Egypt.
Well anyway with a bit of googling I came up with the map Glenn Kimball and Gunnar Thompson were talking about. But why should I have to search for something so basic, George has the man for four hours and he couldn't take four seconds to ask what map is that Glenn?
I'm usually a George booster but his incurious interviewing style is frustrating sometimes.
The map http://www.marcopolovoyages.com/Beijing ... uction.htm
Well anyway with a bit of googling I came up with the map Glenn Kimball and Gunnar Thompson were talking about. But why should I have to search for something so basic, George has the man for four hours and he couldn't take four seconds to ask what map is that Glenn?
I'm usually a George booster but his incurious interviewing style is frustrating sometimes.
The map http://www.marcopolovoyages.com/Beijing ... uction.htm
George is usually reading his fan mail and email and surfing the net during interviews, so he does miss a lot of opportunities for follow-up questions. When he hears a guest pause for a few seconds, he just quickly looks down at his checkllist of questions and goes with the next one on the list.
I'm also pretty sure the guests write their own introductions and submit a list of questions for George to ask them. This means George and his staff can spend more time lounging around the studio, re-stacking boxes and boxes of "Worker in the Light," watering plants, eating their sack lunches, etc. All they have to do is rip and read some news stories off of the Drudge Report, read some questions off a piece of paper, and answer the phone when it rings and remind each caller to compliment George on what a great job he's doing.
It's a pretty good gig for George and his posse.
I'm also pretty sure the guests write their own introductions and submit a list of questions for George to ask them. This means George and his staff can spend more time lounging around the studio, re-stacking boxes and boxes of "Worker in the Light," watering plants, eating their sack lunches, etc. All they have to do is rip and read some news stories off of the Drudge Report, read some questions off a piece of paper, and answer the phone when it rings and remind each caller to compliment George on what a great job he's doing.
It's a pretty good gig for George and his posse.
Last edited by Plainsman on 02-09-2007 12:54 AM, edited 1 time in total.
Plainsman wrote: George is usually reading his fan mail and email and surfing the net during interviews, so he does miss a lot of opportunities for follow-up questions. When he hears a guest pause for a few seconds, he just quickly looks down at his checkllist of questions and goes with the next one on the list.
I'm also pretty sure the guests write their own introductions and submit a list of questions for George to ask them. This means George and his staff can spend more time lounging around the studio, re-stacking boxes and boxes of "Worker in the Light," watering plants, eating their sack lunches, etc. All they have to do is rip and read some news stories off of the Drudge Report, read some questions off a piece of paper, and answer the phone when it rings and remind each caller to compliment George on what a great job he's doing.
It's a pretty good gig for George and his posse.
Oh Plainsman... You mean when a guest says, "the world will come to an end as we know it at 3:37 pm next Tuesday" and George comes back with, "my dog loves Purina" there is a wee disconnect?
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Plainsman wrote: George is usually reading his fan mail and email and surfing the net during interviews, so he does miss a lot of opportunities for follow-up questions. When he hears a guest pause for a few seconds, he just quickly looks down at his checkllist of questions and goes with the next one on the list.
I'm also pretty sure the guests write their own introductions and submit a list of questions for George to ask them. This means George and his staff can spend more time lounging around the studio, re-stacking boxes and boxes of "Worker in the Light," watering plants, eating their sack lunches, etc. All they have to do is rip and read some news stories off of the Drudge Report, read some questions off a piece of paper, and answer the phone when it rings and remind each caller to compliment George on what a great job he's doing.
It's a pretty good gig for George and his posse.
I'm sure they do a little more research than that. But it is quite disturbing how every talk show host is ripping off the Drudge Report, and poor Matt Drudge only gets one show a week.
Unfortunately, the guests during the 1st hour of the show frequently are much more interesting than the main guests. It's especially frustrating when George gets a great guest on from 12:15 to 12:30, then cuts the guy off to go to "open lines" for the remainder of the hour. Open lines are horribly boring these days, but George has no clue.
Keep the C2C Guests on the First Hour
Since the ORR dried up last fall, there is really no reason to start C2C with open lines . . . .
Black Bart wrote: I'm sure they do a little more research than that. But it is quite disturbing how every talk show host is ripping off the Drudge Report, and poor Matt Drudge only gets one show a week.
Including Art. During his first hour, he routinely reads off Drudge.
Well, that's a real compliament to Drudge.
Did you hear it? You had to be fast as it dissipated into the ether as quickly as he said it but George Noory/ stand-up comic was on his game last night. I don't know whether or not it was planned, but in the middle of physicist Dr. Brooks Agnew's voyage to the center of the Earth via the north pole interview, Maj. Ed Dames was mentioned. George quickly shot back with: "Dr. Doom could find evil in an ice cream parlor." Who would have known Noory was capable of such antcs?