To those among you who are helpful, interesting and collaborative: I apologize. The rest of you: stop ruining my life, and the lives of every journalist in the world. Why? You are making things boring. In order to make ours a more fruitful, loving relationship, kindly ask yourself the following questions when deciding to micromanage and/or personally monitor an interview. Or a photo shoot. Or anything, for that matter.
1. Is your client Charlie Sheen?
I’ll just go ahead and assume the answer is no, because if someone might be held responsible for the Sheen Shit Show of late, they probs won’t admit it. So, your client is not Charlie Sheen, you say? Then what on earth do you imagine I will want to talk to him/her about that would make them look bad? A divorce? God forbid. A romance? Surely not. Stop giving me rules about what I can ask. They can always say no.
2. Do you want your client to look interesting?
Because I do. I want that very badly. That doesn’t mean I want them to talk about how much they love their play or what a challenge it was to work on and how fantastic their co-stars are. That=not interesting.
3. Is your client a child?
Because the big boys and girls can really decide for themselves what they are willing to talk about. Maybe you could have a meeting with said client and give them helpful hints like, “Maybe tone down the scientology rhetoric?” or, “Please stop talking about how you ‘SO AREN’T GAY’.” And then set them free, like the wild, beautiful animals they were born to be. That means don’t creepily listen in on my phone interview.
In conclusion: we’re all in this together. You want coverage for your clients, I want interesting features to write. Everybody wins. For the love of god, get up out my business.
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