Assignment 5

A Journalist’s Interrogation, Imprisonment in Sudan-April 10, 2008
Likes:
• She did her research-she explained what she knew before she went into the question she wanted to ask
• “Describe the guys who kidnapped you…”
• She asked the interviewee to put himself in the kidnappers shoes-just the same as she is doing to the interviewing
• She used very casual language, she just talked very casually, in general. She said, “So, um, did the militia guys who kidnapped you, um, steal you’re Toyota?”
• She paid attention! She was totally absorbed in what he was saying, it didn’t seem like she was using pre-planned questions, although she probably was.
Dislikes:
• I wish Gross would have gotten more into what it was like to be there; I wanted to know what imprisonment was like. I wanted a visual picture of what happened.

Julie Andrews, Making Good after a Miserable Youth
• She presented her own biases and assumptions and asked the interviewee whether or not this was a common assumption and to clarify her biases.
• She asked Julie Andrews, “To describe…” her childhood
• She seemed as if she had read Julie Andrew’s book “Home” before interviewing her; if she hadn’t read the entire thing she, at least, skimmed it
• Terry Gross brought up paragraphs and chapters from the book and asked Julie Andrews to re-tell the story; This means that she can use live quotes from Julie Andrews.
• She said what she knew about Julie Andrews and then asked her what that was like
• She asked very in-depth questions, I couldn’t have even thought to ask those kinds of questions
Dislikes:
• Terry Gross mentioned what she knew about Julie Andrew’s childhood, and the information she said was incorrect. Julie Andrews had to correct Gross and it made her look less reliable.; Andrews seemed even a little offended. Perhaps her research was not thorough enough.

‘The Ten-Year Nap’: Stay-at-Home Mama Drama-March 24, 2008
• Her first questions were, “Can you give me an excerpt…” and, “Can you describe for me…”
• Her questions immediately bounced off of what the interviewee was saying in their answer to her questions
• You could tell that she read the book herself before she interviewed
• The interviewee spoke a lot; Terry Gross talked only five times during the interview.
• She asked about specific excerpts from the book, “The Ten-Year Nap”
Dislikes:
• Terry Gross did not seem as interested with the subject as she was with past interviews; she didn’t give verbal responses like she had in past interviews.