On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:52 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is Costas too close to the field (sports) to be effective? The sports > bench is arguably thinner than the larger journalism bench. Costas is not too close to be effective - he is fact the perfect person to interview this particular subject, which is why he never will, as his agents (who control him now) would never allow it. I guess maybe he might be too close to NBC, which I think still has that special deal with Notre Dame football, so that might be a conflict. Another good interviewer actually is Dan Patrick, who regularly does good work on his radio show, among the good natured silliness there. Jon Stewart has been mentioned as a good interviewer, and he is (when not talking to celebrities) but I have also seen him get beat pretty bad by someone who comes in prepared and focused (he has taken some good natured swipes at himself recently for going soft on the Petraeus mistress). I think Colbert is the better interviewer - with all respect to Stewart, he is smarter and better informed and thinks a little faster on his feet. Someone said the sports interviewing bench is thin, but I can think of 3 very good sports interviewers right away, and 2 (above) entertainment interviewers, but frankly I can not think of even 1 good hard news interviewer. I have not watched 60 Minutes regularly, so I don't know how someone like Steve Croft is doing these days. What's her name (Colbert's multi-ethnic beauty on CNN, can't get her name right now and dont feel like looking it up) has had some good moments, but I don't watch her regularly enough to know if that is consistent. Now that I think about it, I guess most of the anchors on NewsHour are good interviewers. Last thing - just to be clear, the Teo story is not the hardest of news stories in any case, and maybe deserves the Katie-Treatment. What I think is more important is not Teo himself, but the failure of sports journalism that this case illustrates. In that sense, what I would really like to see is someone like Ted Koppel, at least in his prime, interview people with editorial responsibility at ESPN and maybe something like USA Today Sports about this, as those guys really took a dive on this story clearly because the Notre Dame connection and pimping the related mystique was good for their business. -- 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
