[Ipg-smz] Phone interview question

[Evan Schuman]

Does it make any sense these days to say—in an editorial story or column—that an interview was a phone interview? 

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.”

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?

 

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