Joseph Stanchek
10/4/2018
Interview Process Moves
In the video presented Sports radio WIP host Angelo Cataldi is interviewing Phillies Manager Gabe Kapler is being interviewed about his tough season as the Phillies collapsed. Throughout the interview, the sports radio host has been doing interviews for thirty years and shows some pro moves that are hard to catch but allow the interviewer to get the reactions he wanted from the Phillies manager. At the beginning Angelo Cataldi at first uses a move to professionally announcer the Phillies manager professionally. Angel Cataldi comes out straight away and brings a warm cheerful tone to a conversation he knows will lead to a yelling match. This allows the person giving off the interview to get it off on the right foot which helps the tone of the interview to start. Cataldi also uses moves to transfer subjects when Kapler tends to get too heated to keep him level headed as much as possible when Cataldi also seems to be getting more frustrated. This can be seen when Cataldi is talking about how he represents the fans and then uses factual information to back up his thoughts. At the four minute and thirty second mark the host turns the conversation to numbers about how they collapsed from fifteen games over five hundred. He then continues to compare manager to the General Manager and how if you believe in the General Manager you are just as incompetent as him. This leads to an angry Gabe Kapler which rarely shows emotion and pulls a very good interview and natural questions to be answered that maybe usually a plain jane interview. It is interesting on how poking the bear has created a better interview and questions and how not every interview requires the same tactics. Cataldi also uses a professional move to prove a point against the coach. Cataldi takes a video of Kepler’s Boss and Owner criticizing Kapler to prove his point that there needs to be changes which helps Kapler understand there needs to be changes. Also, after revisiting the interview, I think there is professional move that is being done by the host by not saying much while the interviewee is on a rant. If you were to break up his train of thought, it wouldn’t lead to as good of radio or conversation. Most inexperienced people doing an interview may change the subject to quickly which would likely cut meat off the bone in the conversation. At the end of the interview and Gabe is frustrated, the host uses a compliment of saying that he likes a fired-up Gabe Kapler. This helps ease the conversation slightly and also causing the coach to no get angry and leave the phone call. He bends a fine line which is necessary to create a tough interview and does the correct amount of bending get the best answers. Another small move I have seen after revisiting the video, you can see he doesn’t say when the interview is done but says he has a final question for Gabe Kapler. This allows him to transition away from the interview without making the interviewee seem like they are being cut off from something they wanted to say. You can also see a reiteration of a warm welcome and goodbye be reused to make sure to open and close on a good note. This tactic helps with maybe securing a second interview in the future because is bridges are burnt entirely, the coach may turn to other channels to get his points across. There is a stance being taken within the interview as well as the host never backs down to any insults or claims and could have easily turned into a fluffy interview as normal but the host instead stands up for what he wrote and says he speaks for the fans. This interview lasted about thirteen minutes and is a good representation of a certain way to do a specific type of interview. It is definitely not the type of interview method id suggest for the interviews we are about to perform because the scenarios are much different.
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