The Interview

I’ve listened to almost every episode. I really like this show, but the interviews that Lulu leads inevitably end up with this aggressive tone. Even when the guests seem to agree with her she sets them up for these gotcha questions that feel like cheap shots. I enjoy hearing push back and truly like that this show asks ‘hard hitting questions’, but the way she does it feels blind siding to the guest and frankly lacks tact. Getting people to open up publicly is an art and simply bulldozing them does not make for good journalism.

I think that your time is the number one best journalism in the world by far and hold their recording to be what's real and right and I trust, but I have given the interview any chances and I just don't like it. I just cannot stand it every interview Lulu Garcia does Questions her way about interviewing her attitude or respectfulness her Eeyore. Way of interviewing amazing people and just constantly pissing me off by the way she asks question has this pessimistic annoying view on everything I find her interviews to be extremely bad extremely annoying extremely unnecessary and extremely stupid. Why did she have to be so that girl in school that I wanted to like pull her ponytail sorry Lulu, but stop being that journalist that nobody has anything good to say about be respectful be formal in your introduction and kind to interview and then go into your analyzing and probing, but do it in a way that begins and ends with kindness, respect, and integrity and then maybe I can stomach some of your interview be better. You just don't feel like a fit in New York Times personally. Lastly, people who write incompetent clueless, negative reviews, talking bad about Nancy Pelosi are so far gone out in outer space at a touch and clueless to reality because Nancy Pelosi it save so many lives save this country and done more for this countries than any other political person in this country as a gay man she's my hero and the politician with the biggest balls in Washington. I can say that because I can back it up and I pay attention to what's real and what's not thank you.

This show is becoming harder for me to listen to. I find that Lulu tries to be a strong interviewer but comes off as argumentative and even bullying. At times, David pushes people’s personal boundaries so much that it becomes uncomfortable. Meanwhile, it’s up to the guests to remain calm, articulate, and professional. Their approaches end up being distracting to what these fascinating guests have to say and is quite frankly painful to listen to.

Lulu is a terrible interviewer. The interview with Blinken was hugely disappointing. I’m shocked that people still agree to come on this show. It’s gotcha journalism at its worst. Her questions seem contorted to make her seem “tough” but really her questions are nonsensical and borderline rude - like how she continually pressed Blinken on whether he was a failure because Trump won. Huh? It would be good if her questions actually revealed anything. But they don’t. I learned nothing about the US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. What a wasted opportunity. A good interview comes from specific knowledgeable good faith questions - not confrontational theater designed to make the interviewee squirm. This is not a courtroom cross examination; it’s an interview. The NYTimes can do a lot better. I really want to like this show because the NYTimes brand can pull in some great interviewees. But the interviewers are falling short. And don’t say “oh I’m penalizing her because she’s a woman and people find tough women off putting.” No. There are great female interviewers like Kara Swisher that can ask tough questions without coming off confrontational. You have to have a bit of charm to be a good interviewer.