On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Wrecks <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to know what school of journalism teaches its students to > not > > ask the only question that matters in an interview until near the end? > > When I took journalism in school we were taught the opposite. The > most important facts were to come first with the details later. But > that was newspaper journalism. I think on television, they try to > hold the audience through as many commercials as possible. That is > why award shows save the most coveted prizes for the last.
Exactly. The Lebronathan was a TV award show - or, as Dan Patrick said this morning, more like a TV Reality Show. He said he seriously expected Jim Grey to say, at the end of his 12 minutes of foreplay questions, "And who will you be playing with next year? The answer to that question........when we come back. THIS, is American Sports Idol!" Even TV journalism - even sports TV journalism, knows better than to bury the lead. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
