<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR>Be less unsympathetically one-dimensional in slice-of-life TV interviews
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MEDIACORP'S Channel 8 documentary Frontline last Friday, about the poor and elderly making a living selling tissue paper, floored me with its rude and inconsiderate interviewing technique.
I understand it is important for journalists to elicit the truth and grab the audience's attention. But I implore MediaCorp to moderate the tone of such slice-of-life interviews in future by layering them with the natural empathy such situations call for, rather than project a derisory tone in a callously one-dimensional interviewing technique.
Joshua Chua
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MEDIACORP'S Channel 8 documentary Frontline last Friday, about the poor and elderly making a living selling tissue paper, floored me with its rude and inconsiderate interviewing technique.
I understand it is important for journalists to elicit the truth and grab the audience's attention. But I implore MediaCorp to moderate the tone of such slice-of-life interviews in future by layering them with the natural empathy such situations call for, rather than project a derisory tone in a callously one-dimensional interviewing technique.
Joshua Chua
