No Howard Stern Here…

August 2, 2006 - 11:58 AM by Allison

David Bogner writes on his blog about the many interviews he’s done and why he’s not applying for the position of King of All Media:

I usually do my writing between 5:30 and 6:00 AM, but instead of trying to create a coherent post, I ended up talking semi-coherently on the air with a talk show host in the US.

Like many other bloggers, I’ve done about a dozen phone and email interviews with various members of the media from around the world in the past few weeks. I have also turned down a few requests for interviews after checking them out and getting the feeling I was likely to be deliberately quoted unfairly, out of context or asked a bunch of ‘are you still beating your wife, yes or no?’ kind of questions.

But by and large I feel very strongly that people from all walks of life in Israel should be interviewed so the world can see we are as complex and multi-faceted a society as anywhere else (perhaps more so)… and not some monolithic ‘thing’ that can be summed up in a 15 second news sound-byte.

Anyway, the reason I didn’t give anyone a heads-up about this live radio interview is that I didn’t really trust myself not to sound like a complete idiot. This fear is just one of many reasons I haven’t embraced pod-casting. Quite simply, the written format of my journal allows me to edit myself and even delete whole entries that are ill advised or just plain wrong-headed. This self-editing happens much more often than you probably would guess since so much ill-advised, wrong-headed stuff actually gets published here.

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