Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago this week, I wrote a column detailinganinterview Cleary had conducted with his favorite breakfast table daily following the Harvard B.U. contest. Portions of that interview read as follows...
...losses of $30 million before edging toward the black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...
...Breaking into laughter, I said, 'Surely you understand that the shots of me looking cool were "reverses," filmed after Ulbricht had left the room!' No, Paley had not understood, that ... I proceeded to explain in detail the conventional post-interview procedure for shifting the camera and focusing it on the correspondent to repeat the principal questions, plus a gamut of absorbed and skeptical poses, all of this to be spliced into the interview to add variety and facilitate editing. Paley was fascinated. 'But isn't it basically dishonest?' he asked finally...
That very day Paley ordered staged reverses stopped. But his stern edict has since been relaxed, so that if a Mike Wallace interview now takes place with only one instead of two cameras, Wallace can be photographed afterward asking the same questions again or reacting angrily, moodily or laughingly-so long as these reverses are "made in the presence of the interviewee" or with his consent...
...Interviews with victims of accidents or other tragedies, or with their relatives: "Avoid them." Exception: "When they throw light on what happened or drive home a point which might help avoid future tragedies ... Do not interview, or attempt to interview, a person who appears to be in a state of shock." (The CBS code does not point a finger at anyone else, but one of the most shameless recent TV exploitations of distraught relatives was Geraldo Rivera's ABC interviews in the Son of Sam murders...