To help me gain more knowledge on how to interview successfully I looked at these examples of particularly bad interviews and then tried to work out what went wrong so that I can avoid making these easy mistakes in the future:
1. 'Beware of Mr Baker: Q&A with Ginger Baker'
In this interview it is immediately obvious that it is off to a bad start when Interviewer Micheal Hann instantly makes assumptions about Baker whilst talking to him. This then annoys Baker who reacts in a bad manner. This then establishes an awkwardness which is kept up through out the interview because Baker now has a dislike towards Hann. I feel like Hann does try to redeem himself to a certain extent but still keeps using terms that assume certain things about Baker that he still isnt happy with. I also think that Hann should allow Baker to talk for himself a bit more and allow a conversation to start because it seems to me like he is just forcing a lot of misleading questions at Baker which keep allowing very little room for development
2. Mo Farah US TV Interview
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This interview doesn't work well at all because it soon becomes obvious that the interviewer in the TV studio barely has any background knowledge on this subject or who he is. We can tell this by the lack of intelligent questions. She asks at one point 'If he has run before' which simply shows ignorance towards him. I feel like the questions aren't asked in the proper manner either because they are not giving him enough to talk about. If they asked the right questions he would have been able to talk a lot more. He even ends up correcting the interviewer on her lack of knowledge when she keeps saying he has run a marathon. I feel like she was unable to recover from her mistakes because she obviously hadn't taken the proper preparation she needed to to be able to have a more insightful interview.
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