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Voice
recording adds depth,
accuracy to news interviews
By Kristina
Finn
Bulletin Staff
Imagine actress
Mae West or American film producer Ray Starks is sitting with you, ready
and willing to be interviewed. You pull out your voice recorder and
settle in to begin the interview, when their sudden refusal to be recorded
forces you to adjust and rely solely on a notebook and pen.
 Larry
Grobel, author of several books and a famous interviewer for Playboy
Magazine, remembers those interviews clearly. Grobel said he was prepared
for the switch, but using only pad and pen has never been his preference.
“I have always
used a tape recorder,” Grobel said.
Although Grobel
said he uses voice recorders to conduct his interviews, he acknowledges
that he has not adapted to digital recorders, but remains faithful to
his tape recorders. Grobel, now 65 years old and 48 years into his career
as a journalist, said he will most likely never convert. MORE
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