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shapiro had a very rare bad day with the BBC interview. <shrug> He is human, although he appears to be a computer sometimes. Shapiro admitted he was terrible in the interview. A rare admission for any pundit.
Interesting that the one time shapiro very publicly messes up we get a 12 page thread about it on C-D. I'm surprised so many follow him....or was his flub celebrated in a talking points memo article??
Well Andrew Neil certainly seemed good enough for The Daily Wire.
You know,the website founded by Ben Shapiro.
The Ben Shapiro who says he's never heard of Andrew Neil.
Here's The Daily Wire praising Andrew Neil's journalistic skill back in February.
I don't think the way to convince people that you are right is by being a condescending prick.
When people call him racist, try and shout him down, and stop him from going on campus then they deserve whatever grief he gives them.
Although I disagree with him on foreign policy, he's honest and consistent. He criticizes both sides. THAT is what makes him a man.
Isn't Neil supposed to be doing what any reporter worth their salt is supposed to do? Grill people in politics or fields closely related to politics so as to expose the public to other perspectives - so the public is properly informed to make up their own mind? Shapiro is either totally clueless about how real media is supposed to operate or he simply can't take the heat.
Andrew Neil's interview style is what is called playing the "Devil's advocate", it's actually an act or a gimmick. When you play the Devil's advocate, you are supposed to inform the subject of this so that the subject knows where you are coming from. I guess Shapiro should have known this about him and he didn't.
Andrew Neil's interview style is what is called playing the "Devil's advocate", it's actually an act or a gimmick. When you play the Devil's advocate, you are supposed to inform the subject of this so that the subject knows where you are coming from. I guess Shapiro should have known this about him and he didn't.
LOL, what a weak excuse. If you are worth a darn, you don't have to script the interview before it happens.
Well I guess Shapiro fully admitted he was owned by Andrew Neil, you have to give him credit for that. Shapiro's mistake was a cultural one. Andrew Neil's approach is fairly standard in British television news, which typically can take the opposite stance to the person being interviewed as a technique for drawing a response.
Although it's interesting to think that if Shapiro had known that Neil is Conservative, that he may have had a different reaction to the same questions. His response was shaped in part by assuming that Neil was left wing.
I'd love to see him interviewed by Jeremy Paxman, an even more hard nosed Conservative interviewer.
Well I guess Shapiro fully admitted he was owned by Andrew Neil, you have to give him credit for that. Shapiro's mistake was a cultural one. Andrew Neil's approach is fairly standard in British television news, which typically can take the opposite stance to the person being interviewed as a technique for drawing a response.
Although it's interesting to think that if Shapiro had known that Neil is Conservative, that he may have had a different reaction to the same questions. His response was shaped in part by assuming that Neil was left wing.
IMO he knew who he is. He simply took the weak argument.
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