Stupid Interview Question

I'm not following the Ramsey thing, but I have CNN on in the background.

I just heard a reporter ask Mr. Ramsey what the hardest part of this whole thing has been.

"Well, the hardest part was losing a child..."

Duh.

I know that you can get some strange answers to the obvious questions, but some reporters drive me apeshit. And I see it a lot in TV news. I recall a recent telecast where they're on location with a camera in some lady's face asking her how she felt after her kid drowned in a swimming pool or some such thing.

 

"Katzenmoyer. Katzenmoyer. Katzenmoyer. Your thoughts?"

 

Damn that is the dummest question I ever heared someone ask.

 

Thanks for the edit, Moddy.

;-)

 

An on campus recruiter once asked an interviewee (law student) "if you could be any color, what color would you be?"

 

One of the questions to Parcells during a press conference this season, something along these lines:
"You've been talking about how Jones takes a lot of carries, and that contributes to fatigue. Now in baseball, when a pitcher throws a lot of pitches, they get fatigued easily, so how would you compare the position of pitcher in baseball to that of runningback in football?"

 

What the hell was that reporter thinking asking that.

 

That's awesome. It's giving me a migraine just trying to deduce what it was he was aiming it? Did he want a rubber knees comment?

 

Did Ed Werder ask that question?

 

After the KAL crash in Guam, relatives of the dead were arriving. As they got off their flight, a local TV reporter stuck a mike in one woman's face and asked 'How do you feel right now?'

I've interviewed a lot of relatives of murder victims, crash victims etc. I've never asked that particular question.
Nor did I ever ask the question that Ramsey was asked.

 

This is not as blatant as these but I watched a HS football game which ended with an interception in the endzone as time ran out. Team A holds on with a 28-22 win. Me and another guy go down talk to losing coach. First question the other guy asks: Coach, what happend on the last play?
Coach looks at him and says: They intercepted the fucking ball, weren't you watching?

I knew the coach pretty well, and he was a bit upset about the loss, but I was trying hard not to crack up. I walked away, and he came up to me a few minutes later and was smiling said "Damn that felt good."
I lost it then. He laughed and I turned to him and said "Coach, okay seriously, what DID happen on that last play?"