The email interviews
Comments(0) Reading a post by Jason Calacanis about refusing to do a phone interview for Wired got me in a t’riffic mood. Of course Wired didn’t hold back but the thing that makes this amusing is the fact that Calacanis is so paranoid about being misquoted he’ll only do email interviews.
I can understand his “I don’t need publicity” position but what I fail to understand is how someone like himself doesn’t recognize how boring such interviews are for the journalists and especially for people to read. The whole point of an interview is the interaction between both parties involved. It’s about the spontaneity, follow-up questions and answers, digging deep, pushing the envelope of what you can get out of a person. When you look at it from such a perspective you might be inclined to believe Calacanis is simply affraid of being led into a trap and revealing too much.
Sure, you’ll be misquoted a few times but that’s easily rectified. Just as easy as doing it all by email.
