Ever give a bad interview...

[Earth_First]

I just got off the telephone from giving a telephone interview to the Village Voice concerning the post-primary day-to-day operations within the Kucinich Campaign. After I hung up I realized "That was a baaad interview!"

LMAO!

[eyesroll]

1. I never feel comfortable giving an interview

I edit a trade magazine, and conduct dozens of interviews a month. Whenever I'm on the other side, I do terribly (in my own head).

A few months ago, I gave an interview to an AP reporter (about the Wal-Mart cleaning arrests). As soon as I hung up, I started freaking out. It ran a few days later, and was perfectly OK, but I didn't find out until a couple of weeks after that, because he misspelled my name, so it didn't come up on the Google News search.

[izzie]

2. I once had to give one on my art on TV. ONCE was enough. Scary

My daughter taped it but I would not even look at it. She said it was fine but she had to she is my daughter. I felt I was in shock.

[BurtWorm]

3. What made it bad, out of curiosity?

I'm usually in the position of interviewing someone, in which case it can be bad if I haven't done my homework and ask questions anyone who had done his homework wouldn't ask. I haven't had that bad an interview experience since I first started. Except for those interviews when the person is kind of a stiff with the quotes.

[H2O Man]

4. Sure. Plenty of them.

If you do lots of interviews, about one in ten ends up in the bottom 10%. Don't let it bug you. Giving no interview would be worse. Listen: often the efforts that we subjectively think suck, are viewed by objective folks as very good. Look at the subject matter: hard to have a chipper chat on how the "mainstream" was unable to comprehend the beautiful and gentle message of Kucinich. He was speaking nonviolence, peace, and reconciliation, at a time when the media's tongue is hatred, fear and violence! Bless you for doing the interview. I mean that very much!