(iverson's) currentbuzz: The Future of Journalism: Do You [Still] Give Phone Interviews or Rashomon Audio

In an attempt to prevent misquoting, an increasing number of sources, are demanding that journalists conduct their interviews via email.

Source: onthemedia.org

Don't Quite Me is Howard Kurtz's way of talking about the current re-evaluation of the face-to-face or phone interview, a "linchpin of journalism for centuries" according to Kurtz.This thread of this discussion is ostensibly about how some people are refusing to talk via a phone (or at least an old school phone, not skype phone) and opting for email interviews but it is percolating through various media.

Chris Anderson proposes "radical transparency" for Wired.

Now this is the best part. Calcanis does an audio interview for Brooke Gladstone and they almost go heated about whether it would be okay to post an unedited version of the audio on the site with an edited version. And Calcanis says he likes Brooke's editing. There are links from that audio and story to Calcanis' site.

On the media's podcast (edited) version of the interview

Calcanis's written explanation of why he doesn't do phone interviews and his critique of a Wired journalist who wouldn't email questions and do the interview via email.

This might seem trivial but I suspect this is a one of those "new technology disruptions" that McLuhan charted. The tech wasn't meant to disrupt, but it sure did. Why not post the whole interview? If one was in a hurry, one would certainly listen only to an edited version, but what does it hurt to let the v/users be in on "process?" You tell me.