What types of sensitive or difficult interviews might a journalist face?
DALE RICE: Well I think there are lots of sensitive subjects for interviews and lots of difficult interviews; you can have a difficult interview on the most innocuous subject just because the person is just really difficult. On the other hand you can also face great difficulty with sensitive issues. I think some of the most sensitive things that you end up doing, you realize, aren’t nearly as difficult. The first time I had to call whose loved one had just died in a terrible accident; and I thought, oh, I can’t believe I’m having to do this. And I discovered the person who answered the phone is the person who may be a friend or relative who is upset yes but is not distraught. And another thing I discovered, in a tough situation like that is, many people find it very cathartic to talk about the person that they just lost unexpectedly and they are really happy to be able frame the way memory of that person is going to be, is going to appear, to tell you what a wonderful grandmother the p
