Comments on: Terry Gross Responds

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:28:35 +0000

NPR still hasn’t posted the unabridged interview…

By: Tom B.

Tom B. — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:49:37 +0000

My impression is that when interviews are rebroadcast, they tend to be part of compilation shows with other previously released stuff — so you trim them down to fit more of them into a broadcast. There’s nothing unusual about that.

By: tao

tao — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:41:16 +0000

ed,

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/article/books/1552/debut-taunt

my profile got edited out of online time out new york.

By: tao

tao — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:39:16 +0000

if the listener doesn’t know who oprah is 20 years from now they will get bored and go to some other website, advertisers will learn about this somehow and pay less money to them, or maybe terry gross views everything as a ‘work of art’ to be ‘refined’ as much as possible to create something new and more interesting and more beautiful, etc., there are many reasons why something would be edited down

By: tao

tao — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:37:54 +0000

“While I agree with Gross that a certain degree of audio cleanup is necessary to ensure a professional broadcast, I still remain mystified why additional broadcasts are edited further. I also wonder why such concerns as “dated” material should even matter. After all, if the listener knows that she’s listening to an interview that aired before, why then should such a distinction matter?”

because they want to make something that they think is more interesting, that will keep listeners more interested

when i write something i edit it a lot, then after it gets accepted i edit it and other people edit it and then later on i edit it more and like a year later if i had the chance i would edit it more

the same with non-fiction