Oct 12 2005
Article on Alouni
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Journalists and the plague of being identified with interviews
By Daoud Kuttab
It has always been a problem for journalists: how to carry on the profession of journalism without being accused of sympathizing with the person you are covering. Every journalist who covers a conflict can’t help but have some sympathies for his subject. Internationally famous New York Times columnist Tom Friedman once told me that a good journalist always shows his subject that he is genuinely interested in what he is saying. You have to give the person you are interviewing the feeling that you are hanging on every word he or she is saying, he explained. Continue Reading »