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Talk About This Blog
May
1
2012
My brother is annoyed by reporters who interview people and use the phrase “Talk about …” instead of asking questions.
For example, if the Lions were to win the Super Bowl, the reporter would find Matthew Stafford and say to him, “talk about this win”.
In the past, reporters would conduct interviews with questions. The previous example would have been “What does this win mean to you?”
They mean approximately the same thing. They get approximately the same result.
After hearing yet another post-game interview, I thought about it for a few minutes. I wonder if the shift to “talk about” came because people were saying what they wanted to say regardless of the question.
Maybe reporters got tired of people ignoring the question and giving whatever spiel they had, so they stopped bothering to think up questions.
It seems to me that both sides need a refresher course on expectations: interviewers are to ask questions and interviewees are to answer the questions that are asked.
But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.” And he went out onto the porch.
Mark 14:68
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:10 pm and has been carefully placed in the Ponder category.
May 2nd, 2012 at 9:43 am
I swapped out two monitors this morning. The users should be happy.
Wait, what was the question?
May 2nd, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Well since you asked, I definitely think a combination of solar, wind and recycling raw sewage would solve our energy crisis.
I mean, have we forgotten the lessons of “Mad Max III: Beyond the Thunderdome”??? – they powered an entire, smallish-sized ramshackle community solely on pig manure!!!
August 27th, 2015 at 6:15 am
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