Since class today I've been thinking a lot about interviews and the purpose and skill behind them. While watching the news tonight I found myself looking critically at each person being interviewed, and how they were (or weren't) using the skills we had talked about today.
One of the stories on the Vancouver news tonight was the safe return home of Langley teen Amanda McPhee on June 17, and her apology to those that she hurt by her (entirely voluntary) disappearance. What was interesting about this apology was that it was done over YouTube in her own home (with the consent of her parents). After playing clips of the video, the news then focused on a communications expert who commented on how this YouTube apology signifies a change in the way interviews or anything of the type may be going in the future. McPhee, he said, chose a way to apologize that could be done in her own home in her own way, while addressing the public on a very personal level.
This coming right on the heels of other young people apologizing via YouTube or other online media outlets for the Vancouver riots, it had me thinking about the implications of this kind of public address rather than that of a press conference or TV interview (like that of teen Nathan Kotylak). Are these young people taking the easy way out by addressing the public in the comfort of their own homes, or are they just doing what seems normal for their generation by delivering their message through the click of a computer?
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