<div dir="ltr">Not for me. However, I'll use "tells Light Reading" to differentiated from press releases/blog posts/tweets/statements at press conferences. I.e. they told it to us in an individual interview, we're not relying on a broadcast statement here. Some of my colleagues say "said in an interview."<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri;min-height:17px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri;min-height:17px">-- </p><p><a href="http://MitchWagner.com" target="_blank">Mitch Wagner</a> • <a href="http://www.Twitter.com/mitchwagner" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">• </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mitch.wagner" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">Facebook</a><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> • </span><a href="http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">Tumblr</a><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">• </span><a href="http://plus.google.com/+MitchWagner" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">Google+</a></p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 1:02 PM Evan Schuman <<a href="mailto:eschuman@thecontentfirm.com">eschuman@thecontentfirm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_2830446565745205776WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Does it make any sense these days to say—in an editorial story or column—that an interview was a phone interview? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I DO see it making a sense when “phone” is being used to differentiate where someone said it, as in “not at the news conference I referenced, nor in the blog post I quoted from. He said this particular comment during a phone interview.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">But when the only source of someone’s quotes is in a phone interview, does it make sense any more to say that? If I just quote them without giving a source, isn’t it assumed that the source said it in an interview? Any why differentiate from a phone versus an in-person interview? From the reader’s perspective, what difference does it make?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">_______</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Evan Schuman</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="mailto:eschuman@thecontentfirm.com" target="_blank">eschuman@thecontentfirm.com</a></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="tel:973-993-8098" target="_blank">973-993-8098</a> (voice)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Computerworld weekly columnist (Column archive: <a href="http://www.thecontentfirm.com/weekly-column-on-computerworld" target="_blank">http://www.thecontentfirm.com/weekly-column-on-computerworld</a>)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Moderator for MIT Sloan Management Review events<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Google Search: <a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Evan+Schuman" target="_blank">http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Evan+Schuman#</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://twitter.com/eschuman" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/eschuman</a></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/schumanevan/" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/schumanevan/</a></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Member, Internet Press Guild: <a href="http://netpress.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://netpress.org/</span></a></span></i> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div>-- <br>
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