Talk:Brian Lamb

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this guy is not a terribly skilled interviewer. KzzRzzKnocker 03:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
That's the point, he doesn't try to interview, that much. He tries to do as little as humanly possible. Just enough to gove the guest the impression that he is human not a robot.

K, help me out. you'r saying it's a choice. why choose that kinda style? I don't get it. /izl 04:09, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

i think he wants the interview to be about the guest, not the host. he does ask very thoughtful questions and will persue a subject if the interviewee attempts to dodge or change the subject. C-SPAN attempts to be a neutral source of factual information. sometimes this results in a lack of focus on the more vicious of controversial topics. regardless, it is what it is, and when you want to hear about an author's new book, or a professor's new project, there's not much for an interviewer to do but sit back and listen. Mr. Lamb and C-SPAN provide content and style not found on other networks, and that alone is reason to do it. 12 April 2006.

Yes, thats the point, its not about Lamb, he doesn't want you to remember him when the interview is over, he doesn't want to be a figure in his own right. Just like the part of the article which mentions that he never says his own name on the air, its the old adage to report the news, not be the news, which too many tv personalities have forgotten, Lamb trys to not be a tv personality but merely a catalyst for the interveiw to maintain direction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.188.130.152 (talk) 23:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

tavis smiley. now, that's a thoughtful interviewer. does his homework. I guess- it feels like "get to know you" with b.lamb. it's a personal vibe, which is cool. it's just not traditional. that's no reason for me to be a hater, I guess. but I feel like sometimes he hasn't done basic background on a person or what that person does. like, say fishing was not an activity everyone knew th basics of, ok? if he were interviewing a "prominent fisherman" he'd be like "so, I understand you put, what is it, worms on these steel hooks on the end of a very strong synthetic line?" then the interviewee is all like "yeah" and explains it for like 30 seconds. this is cool if you don't know about fishing, which we can assume most people don't. but how many viewers of that episode know about it? then he'd go on some dumb stuff like "these lines are so thin, how are they so strong"? y'know? he does stuff like that. I dunno. a little background, I guess. I get the whole public TV vibe but, /izl 17:37, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Are those quotations really examples of a "unique" style? I mean, do no other people speak like that? Whoever wrote that seems excessively obsequious. Please. The guy is not really unique. And certainly if his manner is not unique, blandly expressed words are not particularly memorable. Wikitoddia 06:19, 18 June 2007 (UTC)