a breath of ‘fresh air’
October 30th, 2007 at 06:30am Jennie Pollock
last night, in my personal time, i saw “fresh air” host terry gross, an award-winning interviewer from npr, in rockford at a fund-raiser for wnij.
her personal appearance was just as entertaining and insightful as her show, which airs at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. weekdays on 89.5 FM.
she shared clips from her interviews with peter o’boyle, bill o’reilly, george clooney, monica lewinsky, larry flynt and lynne cheney to show the challenges of asking people personal questions from afar (she works in philadelphia): guests get defensive or walk right out.
but there are rewards, she says. you find out what makes people who they are (often, their faults, like a priest fighting for death row inmates who feels he doesn’t pray enough). and you learn more about yourself.
at the register star, we don’t often appear on the radio. aside from will pfeifer’s weekly gig on friday mornings on wzok, it’s more of an occasional thing. but radio remains a powerful medium, as evidenced by the hundreds of people who turned out to see gross.
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