The news interview : journalists and public figures on the air

By: Clayman, StevenContributor(s): Heritage, JohnMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002Description: x, 372 pISBN: 0521011914 (pbk.); 9780521011914; 0521812593 (alk. paper); 9780521812597 Subject(s): Interviewing in journalismDDC classification: 070.4 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- news interview in context: institutional background and historical development -- openings and closings -- basic ground rules: taking turns and "doing" news interview talk -- defensible questioning: neuralism, credibility, legitimacy -- adversarial questioning: setting agendas and exerting presure -- answers and evasions -- the panel interview: discussion and debate among interviewees -- conclusion.
Summary: "The news interview has become a major vehicle for presenting broadcast news and political commentary, and a primary interface between the institutions of journalism and government. This text examines the place of the news interview in Anglo-American society, and considers its historical development in the United States and Britain. The main body of the book discusses the fundamental norms and conventions that shape conduct in the modern interview; it explores the particular recurrent practices through which journalists balance competing professional norms that encourage both objective and adversarial treatment of public figures. It also explores how, in the face of aggressive questioning, politicians and other public figures struggle to stay "on message" and pursue their own agendas. Through analyses of well-known interviews, the book illuminates the simultaneously symbiotic and conflictual nature of the relationship between journalists and public figures, and reveals the tensions lying beneath the surface of the nightly news. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, media, and communication studies."--Jacket.
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Included Index.

Introduction --
news interview in context: institutional background and historical development --
openings and closings --
basic ground rules: taking turns and "doing" news interview talk --
defensible questioning: neuralism, credibility, legitimacy --
adversarial questioning: setting agendas and exerting presure --
answers and evasions --
the panel interview: discussion and debate among interviewees --
conclusion.

"The news interview has become a major vehicle for presenting broadcast news and political commentary, and a primary interface between the institutions of journalism and government. This text examines the place of the news interview in Anglo-American society, and considers its historical development in the United States and Britain. The main body of the book discusses the fundamental norms and conventions that shape conduct in the modern interview; it explores the particular recurrent practices through which journalists balance competing professional norms that encourage both objective and adversarial treatment of public figures. It also explores how, in the face of aggressive questioning, politicians and other public figures struggle to stay "on message" and pursue their own agendas. Through analyses of well-known interviews, the book illuminates the simultaneously symbiotic and conflictual nature of the relationship between journalists and public figures, and reveals the tensions lying beneath the surface of the nightly news. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, media, and communication studies."--Jacket.

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