tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post5306829796056494880..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Willkommen Im Cabaret: "Table Talk" At Ika Restaurant, Tuesday, 14 April 2015.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-1410394342032413062015-04-20T19:36:16.913+12:002015-04-20T19:36:16.913+12:00Hehe not quite vortexx, these are the links to the...Hehe not quite vortexx, these are the links to the BBC hardtalk John Key interview. The interviewer is of a standard far superior than the mediocre talents of John Campbell. Although in fairness to mr JC that's extremely subjective on my part. Personally I've never found him to be an interviewer who gets to the crux of the matter, asks questions then immediately talks over the interviewee, likewise he often has decided the facts in his mind before he even interview people, case in point the interview he conducted with the wife of climber Mark Inglis, which was simply horrendous one sided bullying on mr Campbell's part. <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfUozKMgA-Y <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0canC4MM9I<br /><br />That said I do think you made a good point on the whole NZ politicians talking over the interviewer & making what sound like set piece speeches which never answer the question. thesorrow&thepitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-62124950259205508072015-04-19T16:25:48.073+12:002015-04-19T16:25:48.073+12:00I can't remember much about the Campbell and J...I can't remember much about the Campbell and John Key interview but can recall some feelings from when it happened. <br /><br />The programme format, the same as TVOne 7.00pm show and morning interviews on National Radio is hopeless for any in-depth intelligent interviews. <br />The immediate and prime priority seems in each to be to finish within the allotted timeframe. That is more important than what is said or likely to be said.<br /><br />Secondly is the format in terms of what happens. The interviewer wants to ask questions to get answers to elicit some information. The interviewee invariably goes in wanting to make a speech and make some points, political points.<br /><br />When the host asks questions which have nothing to do with the prepared points the guest wants to make there is conflict. In New Zealand John Key knows he can ignore the questions, speak over the host and treat them with disdain with the inevitable result the interviewer will be called rude and unskilled.<br /><br />The Prime Minister accepts invitations to speak when he knows he's on a winner. At other times he is "unavailable."<br /><br />The Campbell Simon Bridges "interview" was an example of there being no chance of there being intelligent tv. <br /><br />Is the answer to turn the studio over to Bridges or whomsoever, saying "You're obviously here to make a speech, go for it" ?<br /><br />Many see interviews by people like Campbell as mere contests (like thesorrow&the pity ?)<br /><br />Ironic really since John Key himself thinks that that programme should be mere entertainment.<br /><br />vortexxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-30388882486866331782015-04-17T08:55:16.007+12:002015-04-17T08:55:16.007+12:00"marvellous Mr Campbell’s current-affairs hal..."marvellous Mr Campbell’s current-affairs half-hour" I'm sorry Chris but maybe it's time the left took its rose tinted glasses off when it comes to John Campbell. A mediocre B grade journalist who is simply a small fish in a smaller pond. Watch BBC hardtalks John Key interview to see a true calibre interviewer. I laughed myself silly when watching Campbell's lackluster debate with the PM, that he of all people could have the nerve to accuse someone else of "playing the man not the ball" was a lamentable farce given that that's been his M.O for his entire narrow agenda driven talentless career. If that's the best NZ's left had to offer then it's all a little bit sadthesorrow&thepitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-15225207593784879352015-04-16T21:46:39.158+12:002015-04-16T21:46:39.158+12:00"... that one well-placed bomb would wipe out..."... that one well-placed bomb would wipe out the cream of the Auckland Left..."<br /><br />I wasn't there, so I think the left was safe ;)<br /><br />However, the dissolute baby boomer middle class left - the left that has so fumbled, sold out and ultimately lacked the balls to fight - probably was. No great loss then if the bomb had have been planted.Sanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03107330732524823291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-4539354573597111392015-04-16T21:13:57.819+12:002015-04-16T21:13:57.819+12:00Hmm. Reaching back in time 83 years for a metaphor...Hmm. Reaching back in time 83 years for a metaphor. <br /><br />I'm afraid the metaphor is a bit too cryptic or perhaps too much of a satellite for me to see the parallels between today's society and the Weimar republic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-45372652071535014962015-04-16T20:14:43.797+12:002015-04-16T20:14:43.797+12:00kindly stop that line of observation Mr Trotter......kindly stop that line of observation Mr Trotter...once in a century is more than enough.<br />pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08727942156598555852noreply@blogger.com