COMM 121 Lecture 2: E-Mail Interview Reading Notes
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Because professionals put it at the very bottom of interview hierarchies, below in-person and below the phone. Veteran reporters think emails are lazy, readers are cheated, journalists are cheated by sources who want an advantage in the interview situation. Deprives reader of sensory advantages (facial expressions, gestures, posture, sound and cadence of voice, emphasis on words, pauses, etc. ) Email interviews are never actually conducted in real time; measured and edited replies create an artificiality reader can recognize. Banisky strongly insists you go first to see someone in-person; she wants evidence of a different effort before you use email, use email like a grenade. It can be great for interviews, but as long as you use it and don"t let it use you . Daily princetonian stopped allowing sources to comment via email; others followed. Students weren"t practicing the interview form reporters have depended on to gather sights, sounds, smells, tastes.
