Why do interviewers on news outlets sometimes abrubtly cut off their subjects, even though nowadays video storage is abundant and editing is relatively easy? I mean you’d think they can just let their guests finish their sentence and edit the interview down to whatever time they want to spend on it right?
I was watching [this interview with Naomi Klein](https://youtu.be/NDWrHd-izFg?si=Yi4hTx9ikgocQLhv) about her book. It was quite long about 40 minutes but at the end she is still abruptly cut off mid-sentence with a quick “okay we have to leave it there”
I mean couldn’t the interviewer at some point just say some house-keeping stuff like “okay please make your closing remarks now”, and then edit out those house-keeping parts in post, and cut the interview down to whatever time length they want to allot to it?
You could say it was because it’s a smaller media company and they don’t have as many editors on staff. However I’ve seen it happen on numerous bigger outlets as well, MSNBC, CNN and other news outlets.
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I’m not in that profession, but I’m going to guess anyway because I’m at least aware of how greedy and lazy human beings are, no matter how big or wealthy they are.
Basically hiring a bunch of people to edit videos to absolute perfection is time consuming and expensive. If the interviewer wants a specific answer or answers in the interview they will press them on the person they’re talking to but beyond that they will just allow them to ramble on until it’s time to move on to something else.
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