Saturday 23 May 2009

What's the toughest question you've had to ask?

That's the question journalist George Dearsley, who worked for many of the nationals when they had offices in Manchester, poses on his blog . He looks at some of the the tough assignments reporters have been set and the awkward questions they've had to ask.
George remembers Keith Graves, then with the BBC, asking Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe: “Have you ever had a homosexual relationship?"
He writes: "But, I suppose the toughest question I ever had to ask was put to the wrestler Big Daddy and it was : 'is it right that your wife is a lesbian?' ”
George lived to tell the tale but that was partly because Big Daddy started grappling with the photographer he was with and was distracted by the arrival of hacks from the News of the World.
His blog is a good read.

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