quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
What gave him the idea to call a linguist with that question anyway? |
I told an attractive classmate I used to play Wii at a mate's house. They're the only people they knew who had ever seen a Wii, let alone played it. Journalists know cool/attractive people, therefore he knew my classmate who knew me. After a while I did redirect him to my brother, who's such a video game geek he was on the news a while later because of the amount of games he had... but to no avail
quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
I guess you're right that they need to write about all kinds of stuff and can't possibly know everything or choose to write only about what they know. Yet I've seen so many ridiculous pieces of "journalism" that I can't help but wonder what the heck is wrong with them. It's also the reason why I was very wary of working with one recently (there's a thread somewhere). Btw, I agree with Habermas that there is something like an unholy alliance in Germany between Merkel and the media. |
He's a sane guy, actually
If you can get yourself on TV, do it. If it's on print, don't. Unless you're not sure whether they'll broadcast your interview or not. A bloody Brazilian journalist made me strip in the middle of Japan's most crowded crossing (Shibuya Crossing) during the winter but, because I was too fit for his purposes (he wanted to say Brazilians in general are fatter than the average Japanese person), he simply ignored my efforts and threw my footage in the dustbin.
The bastard
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