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3. Recall a very good interview that you watched/read. What made it so good? Now recall a bad one. What made it so bad?

A good interview I have watched is one with Britney Spears believe or not that was conducted by Diane Sawyer. The interview was good mostly because it was extremely interesting and filled with emotion, regardless if you're a Britney fan or not. Whether or not she answered the questions right, there was crying, music to go along with certain parts of the interview, pictures, and references to the background behind her. What also made the interview really interesting in my eyes was the fact she cried...(is that evil?) There is just something that grabs you when a celebrity shows real emotion, reminding you they're actually human..because that was actually filmed within the interview, it made the interview seem more "real" - as if you're actually feeling whats going on in the room, which is the point of media anyway. A really bad interview in the sense of content was the latest interviews with Sarah Palin and Katie Couric. I think Katie could have lead less and just let Sarah talk because what she was saying was so crazy it made the interview really "good" in a "bad" sense. Sarah and Britney's interviews I guess then were both capturing, (neither of them were anywhere near boring)an important difference between the two would be not the content but those who conducted the interview (Diane vs. Katie).