A Closer Look: Parsing Political Interviews
Listeners often say they hear more from one side or the other. We took a look.
My last column on the burgeoning number of politician interviews on NPR's newsmagazines, many live (and then rebroadcast over subsequent hours), provoked a good deal of response.
My essential point (channeling the frustrations of many listeners) was that the interviews, which have proliferated on NPR in the last year, too often do not add to listeners' understanding of the issues being discussed.
A traditional piece reported by an NPR journalist can be fact-checked. The reporter can include important context or competing
