Andrew Marr worst journalist on TV?

[tim west]

I'm sitting here watching the Andrew Marr Show, he's interviewing Gordon Brown, I can't believe how many times that Andrew has asked a question or in fact put across a point of view to which Gordon starts to answer and then Andrew butts in with a new question before Gordon has manged to get more than three or four words out.
What poor interviewing skills, it's such a waste of time watching as all you get are the points of view of the interviewer or his editorial team with no chance to answer the accusations.
Many of the questions asked were generalisms taken from misguided and deliberately misguided surveys tempting the question as to who commisioned them.
now i'm all for digging questions but for god's sake give the man a chance to explain his views otherwise you might as well be watching a party political broadcast on behalf of the conservative party!

Who do you think is the worst political interviewer or interviewer in general?

Do you think the bias showing through in the way those interviews are conducted ie in not giving the interviewee a chance to reply is detrimental to the validity or credibility of those that ask the questions?

 

[r.bartlett]

Marr is Labour through and through. he was a member of Socialists for a Labour g.ment and married the daughter of a labour Peer.

Nothing against the guy even with regard to the above

Cheers

Richard

 

[Blasphemous]

Not sure about worst Tim but Paxman gets on my tripe though.

Robin Day was great. He had politicians running round in circles.

Edit: For wrong Journo I put in earlier!

 

[monster82]

I think they must all have read the same bbc textbook on interviewing.Dimbleby is the same on question time,they don't listen to any of the content of argument,more interested in badagering politian into making a mistake.

 

[Deluks]

Paxman get on my tits. All he ever does is ask questions for which there can only be 2 answers, both of which are wrong.
Completely pointless, and gets in the way of real dialogue.

People like to see him make politicians squirm though, so guess he's just entertaining the X-factor loving public.

 

[tim west]

glad its not just me then, its really irritating not to be able to hear from the horses mouth as such and then be able to make ones mind up rather than listen to the hearsay

 

[tim west]

glad its not just me then, its really irritating not to be able to hear from the horses mouth as such and then be able to make ones mind up rather than listen to the hearsay of others.

 

[gant]

I don`t know whether it`s conditioning (education) or propaganda winning the battle, but views of on the surface intelligent contributers believing our politicians make the decisions and not the EU and the rest is just a game played between graduates who`ve passed their media studies exams to entertain the proles looks like a decision for ladbrokes.

 

[johnny_t]

Not TV, I know, but John Humphrys, Jim Naughtie and Nicky Campbell are all just as bad for butting in, and being more interested in trying to suss people out rather than listening to a whole response.

 

[mark vincent]

I'm sitting here watching the Andrew Marr Show, he's interviewing Gordon Brown, I can't believe how many times that Andrew has asked a question or in fact put across a point of view to which Gordon starts to answer and then Andrew butts in with a new question before Gordon has manged to get more than three or four words out.
What poor interviewing skills, it's such a waste of time watching as all you get are the points of view of the interviewer or his editorial team with no chance to answer the accusations.
Many of the questions asked were generalisms taken from misguided and deliberately misguided surveys tempting the question as to who commisioned them.
now i'm all for digging questions but for god's sake give the man a chance to explain his views otherwise you might as well be watching a party political broadcast on behalf of the conservative party!

Who do you think is the worst political interviewer or interviewer in general?

Do you think the bias showing through in the way those interviews are conducted ie in not giving the interviewee a chance to reply is detrimental to the validity or credibility of those that ask the questions?

And his ears stick out as well.