> Rene, this seems, shall we say, a bit unlikely in
the circumstances of
the
> discussion transcript, not quite interview, that I
quoted from. You
should
> also not assume that the fellow conversationalists
(or I) manipulated
the
> materials in question to force a certain unintended
negativity. The
> quotations are not misleadingly shorn of context, at
least as I
presented
> them.
I didn't mean to say that I thought that this is what
happened - just that it could have happened that way. In
fact, I've been involved in a situation that went very much
that way. I know nothing about the original context (I don't
even recall who made the original posting on the topic - I
guess it was you). I didn't mean to imply that you had
cropped the interview, either. Apologies if that's how it
seemed. My whole point is that quotations from media
interview should be treated with at least a degree of
caution.
Rene
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rene Ribic [mailto:
rribic@optusnet.com.au]
>
> >
> > "And finally, should Hunter and Leonard have
lied?"
> >
> > I think it's a mistake to make too much about
these off-the-cuff
> > comments. Both Hunter and Leonard are of a
certain age and of a
> > certain status where it becomes rather
insulting for them to be
> > asked about writers who have influenced them.
Or to be asked
> > about any other writers at all. They've been
churning out the
> > books for forty or fifty years. They probably
feel that they
> > should be asked about their own
novels.
> >
> > My take is: they did lie. And they're entitled
to.
> >
> > Dick Lochte
> >
> Plus we don't know the full context that the
comments were made in.
> Interviewers are constantly looking for good
soundbites & they will
> manipulate the situation both during the interview
and later in the
> editing booth to get those soundbites. For all we
know, the
interviewer
> had goaded the writers for half an hour before
he/she finally got the
> soundbite he/she wanted. The interviewer has his or
her own agenda and
> that should be remembered in these
situations.
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