NPR Assignment

NPR assignment
For my NPR assignment, I listened to the April 2nd broadcast with Fresh Air host Terry Gross. She was interviewing journalist Eric Lictblau about the warrantless government wireless taps set up by the government to look into Americans emails and listen to their phone calls. This program came into play after 9-11 by the Bush administration. Terry Gross does an amazing interview with Eric, who broke the story to the New York Times.
In her interview, Terry was more than well prepared. She started the interview with a great introduction of her guest and gave us listeners a good sense of what was going on and what has been happening with the Bush administrations wireless tap and the article Eric published in the New York Times. It seems as if Terry and Eric had met at least once before the interview and gone over exactly what had been going pre and post the release of the newspaper article.
Terry seemed to be all about the details, knowing exactly what questions to ask Eric to lead him to reveal the issue in even more depth. Terry also seemed to be educated about Bush’s administration as well. She talked about how Bush didn’t want the story leaked to the press, and how Bush had a meeting with the New York Times to stop the publication as well.
Listening to this interview, I realize that being prepared in key to a successful interview. Terry asked all of the right questions as well as already knowing the information to keep the conversation moving.