The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94697   Message #1835286
Posted By: Bill D
15-Sep-06 - 11:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: The daily gripe
Subject: RE: BS: The daily gripe
I agree, Mick...When that manhunt was underway the other day, and they 'thought' they had the escapee cornered, the N.Y. trooper at the news conference finally said..."I've answered that question 3 times now."

The reporters just keep asking stuff that they have been TOLD there are no answers to yet, or worse, stuff that they have been told is off limits and WILL not be answered.

...and while I'm at it, let me voice my gripe about the interviewers who phrase questions to squeeeeeeeze 'personal' and emotional responses from people. "So, tell us, Mrs. Jones....how did it make you feel when you learned you had cancer and your husband had run off with the babysitter?"....They can compose 2 minute, compound-complex sentences designed to give then, (the interviewer), the most possible time on camera just to get a 4 second response from the interviewee. "Well, pretty sad, I guess".