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It was difficult to get interviewees to talk about how exactly these intended effects are supposed to be achieved.
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Characters went to radio stations and spoke on the air; they proposed show ideas, made podcast teasers, created a murder-mystery show, got interviewees comfortable on mike.
Now Rolling Stone resorts to cheap parlor tricks such as getting interviewees drunk and conflating quotes to get a headline or two.
Running orders change from minute to minute; scripts get rewritten; interviewees exhaustively prepared are politely stood down ("boshed", in the parlance. A busy news day means much boshing).. Today can't stick on a record or take a few phone calls from the audience if things go pear-shaped.
Despite the fact that the conversations are confidential, you should get the interviewees' permission to record what is being said.
In the present study, to get the interviewees' confidence, the interviewer had to define the content of the interview precisely, and explain the interviewers' role.
Tossing out a rhetorical question -- even a well-worn one -- is a decent tactic if the interviewer doesn't think he's getting anywhere and wants to get his interviewee off his talking points and to maybe accidentally reveal something worth drilling down on.
Robson ([ 25], p283) defines a probe as "a device to get the interviewee to expand on a response when you have a feeling that [they] have more to give".
Get your interviewee's permission.
It is common with such questions that interviewees get distracted answering the first part and forget about the second.
The site is meant to appeal to both interviewers and interviewees: interviewers benefit from the availability of questions that they might want to use in their own interviews, and interviewees get to check out the questions that might be asked of them and what answers they might want to respond with.
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