Newsnight Bbc

[ivor4781]

is anyone watching newsnight tonight .good god that laura kuenssberg woman what an irritating interviewer she would not let gregg dyke get a word in even though he was been interviewed this is newsnight at rock bottom !

[janbee]

Interviewing is a great skill and o sooo many people just can't do it. Sue Lawley was awful. So is Susanna"I just adore myself" Reid. As for political interviewing... forget it. I've yet to see and hear one person able to do it well.

[janbee]

The bumbling Bill Turnbull and Nicholas Owen are terrible interviewers too. As I say, it's a skill and not as easy as some people would like to believe.

[Peter Pedant]

I thought Laura knew Gregg Dyke knew nothing about football and was filling in.
He's ex TV innit ?

talk about the Great and Good getting jobs for the boys

[Ric.ror]

I find Chanel 4 news very irritating because I think JS and KGM are full of their own self importance

[andy-hughes]

It is a skill, mainly because, although it looks like a conversation, it's not.

Last weekend, I did some videoed interviews at the London Drum Show with guest musicians.

I interview musicians regularly, and it is usually informal, I tape our conversations for my use only, so if I tell an appropriate story, or interupt, or laugh, or say 'Ummm', or whatever, it doesn't matter.

But the art of visual interviewing is entirely different -

the interviewer is of secondary importance, and the skill is to ask a question and then shut up while it is answered, only steering to keep on point, and avoid too much in response.

So interaaction, all of which I listed above as normal conversation, is taken out, which takes concentration. You need to engage the interviewee while keping track of time, responses, having your next question ready, but also being ready to go off piste and develop an interesting line of thought that arises from the dialgue.

So no, it's not as easy as it looks!!

[ludwig]

At political interviewer school they obviously tell them that if they ever let the interviewee actually finish a sentence without being interrupted, they've failed at their job and brought shame on the profession.

I frequently have to turn the radio off when John Humphreys is on because his rudeness makes me so annoyed I worry about crashing the car.

Eddie Mair on the other hand is very good.