Charlie Rose and Society's Greats
2 Comments Published by Billy Joe Mills on Saturday, March 22 at 1:22 PM.
Thanks to Lally for alerting me that Charlie Rose recently interviewed one of my favorite authors, David McCullough. The interview with him gets better and better as it goes. Rose happens to have a great website littered with, as far as I can tell, just about every interview he has done. Below I have pasted a select few, but I encourage you to browse the website for your personal favorites.
Rose has the ability to disarm his subjects, he makes them real. He shows us who these people are and how they think. His show has survived the de-education of Americans through television and now we can conveniently learn from society's greats while browsing the Internet. I have always admired the regal and scholarly glints in Rose's voice.
Rose has the ability to disarm his subjects, he makes them real. He shows us who these people are and how they think. His show has survived the de-education of Americans through television and now we can conveniently learn from society's greats while browsing the Internet. I have always admired the regal and scholarly glints in Rose's voice.
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Charlie Rose is the shit. I was watching an interview he did with Samantha Power on his website the other day. Fantastic stuff.
One thing I think Rose does is firmly refute the notion that in order for a journalist to conduct a good interview, particularly when the subject is a politician or some other controversial person, the journalist needs to be "tough" and "hardheaded." Rose is always completely civil and the conversations are always pleasant. That makes the conversations MORE enlightening, not less, because he's not just mindlessly seeking to embarrass or harass. Subjects are asked intelligent questions and are given room to speak, and because the audience expects more than just sound bites, subjects deliver more than just sound bites.
In other words, Tim Russert blows.
That was a wonderful interview. Thanks for sharing it.