You tell them, Bill! 
 
The best journalism and "the most popular" media personalities ask the blunt probing questions.
 
I like Howard Stern.  I used to even find him sexually attractive even though he seems to be a homophobe.  I have to catch my Sirius radio signal after New Years so I can hear what "unregulated radio" is going to be like.
 
 
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
 
Videographer, Writer, Activist
Advisor: The Immortality Institute
Hoboken, NJ
http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/
201-656-3280
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:21 PM
Subject: [videoblogging] Re: "How Old is Dick Cavett?"

Yeah, no shit. Howard Stern has been doing that for like 20 years.
Nothing "new media" about it.

Bill Streeter
LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
www.lofistl.com

--- In [email protected], "Jake Ludington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...> wrote:
>
> > It's breaking the rules! Sure, old media might have guidelines
about how
> > to conduct an interview or ask questions, but does new media have to?
> >
> > My friend once did an interview with the vocalist from the band Plaid
> > Retina, it consisted of one question, and then ended. The question
was:
> > "Why do you sing like a girl?"
>
> Rules of common courtesy and good judgment are older than old media.
Leading
> off with an entirely irrelevant and possibly antagonistic question and
> expecting to get the attention and respect you want isn't a relationship
> building strategy. You become know as the asshole with the camera
instead of
> someone worth talking to. If you expect people to talk to you
openly, you're
> expecting that person to trust you on some level. Trust for most people
> means not portraying them in a bad light. I'm referring to all
people here,
> not just famous ones.
>
> If the new media "rules" are about showing disrespect and acting without
> consideration for the feelings and opinions of others, new media will be
> quickly marginalized like the circus side show that is reality
television.
>
> Jake Ludington
>
> http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com
> http://www.jakeludington.com
>






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