The next decade....what's in store?

'O' ver in a flash

I bought the most recent copy of O magazine. That's Oprah Winfrey's magazine. So thick and full of advertisements.

Well I leafed through it last night and realized that were it not for the interview she did with Alicia Keys, I would have been sorely disappointed at having spent nearly US$4 on it. Usually the magazine is choc full of good articles, but this one was frivolous. I shoulda known by the cover. The main feature was about shopping. Who have money to shop?

Now about that interview....

You know I do interviews quite a bit. Even before this cricket thing I had to do job interviews, not me being the interviewee but me doing the interviewing, also had to do research interviews for my thesis, and now these cricket interviews. Each time that I do one, I review it mentally, and then again when I type up the transcripts, to look at the quality of the questions. I want to make sure that I don't put myself in the interview too much and if I do that it has relevance to the subject I am interviewing.

Well, while reading the Alicia Keys (what a fabulous performer she is) interview I thought to myself that Oprah put too much of herself in the questions/statements. Lemme give you an example....

O: We watched you take home five Grammys. Was that one of your dreams?
A: Part of the dream was to be....I don't know if successful and accepted are the right words.

O: Those are good words and I know where they're coming from. I know you don't mean bling or a big house.
A: Right. I kept diaries when I was young......

O: I've kept them since I was 15. They're among my most prized possessions.
A: It's like "If the house is burning down, get the diaries out". When I was 9, I was in my first music group. I wrote this stupid little thing about how this boy asked me to dance at this party, and at the end of my diary, I wrote, "Please, please, please let this group work out.". It didn't but other things did.

O:In my first diary, I wrote "My dad won't let me go to Shoney's with Anthony Otey. Dad doesn't understand true love."
A: That's so cute.

O: I'll go back and read something I've described as painful, and I can't even remember the incident. You always manage to walk through the pain and come out on the other side.
A. Aint that something?

Too much of Oprah don't ya think? As an interviewer you have to resist the urge to talk about yourself. Ah so me see it.

Posted by yamfoot at September 5, 2004 11:59 PM