The general election has provided lots of opportunities to watch and listen to interviewers at work.
We now have a glut of bombastic, aggressive, and rude interviewers.
Many people like this style when it began to emerge a number of years ago.
But I have now decided it has gone too far and I have had enough.
John Humphreys, Jeremy Paxman, the two Dimbleby brothers, and now Andrew Neill among others, have become not incisive but aggressive.
They interrupt far too much. They ask a question but do not listen to the answer, because no sooner has the question left their lips than they are interrupting again. Too much use of sarcasm too.
This sort of attack does not impress me. Andrew Neill was actually shouting his interruptions during the early hours.
It doesn't help me to understand the interviewee (a calmer yet probing interview would do that); it simply makes me think how rude and obnoxious the interviewer is.
I think this is an awful trend.
We now have a glut of bombastic, aggressive, and rude interviewers.
Many people like this style when it began to emerge a number of years ago.
But I have now decided it has gone too far and I have had enough.
John Humphreys, Jeremy Paxman, the two Dimbleby brothers, and now Andrew Neill among others, have become not incisive but aggressive.
They interrupt far too much. They ask a question but do not listen to the answer, because no sooner has the question left their lips than they are interrupting again. Too much use of sarcasm too.
This sort of attack does not impress me. Andrew Neill was actually shouting his interruptions during the early hours.
It doesn't help me to understand the interviewee (a calmer yet probing interview would do that); it simply makes me think how rude and obnoxious the interviewer is.
I think this is an awful trend.
I saw that. I really like Paxman, but it was good to see somebody not crumbling and sticking to his own script. You could tell that he was absolutely certain of himself.
Can't stand John Humphreys either.