Neither on one side nor the other, but we must talk about the topic, and that is with the controversy surrounding the new Miss Universe, Fatima Bosch, especially what she recently experienced on a television program to which she was invited, and where the hosts went straight for the jugular with questions about what they called “the topic of the day”.
This edition of the pageant in its 74th edition has been different from its beginnings, just as Bosch’s participation. When I say different, I mean that scandals began to be cemented around what was supposed to be one of the world’s most important celebrations of beauty and female empowerment.
There is a lot to opine about, and surely some will agree and others will not, but I speak from my twenty years of experience as a journalist, mostly focused on entertainment.
In these past weeks, the media scandal has snowballed, leaving aside the effort and work that the contestants and, of course, the winner put into preparing to participate.
But I will return to the topic of the interview on the television program of the network that even holds or once held the rights to broadcast the pageant.
It’s true that we have to ask about the topic of the day; it’s true that people want to hear about the controversy and see what the interviewee has to say. However, as an interviewer you have to create a certain connection with the interviewee. How is that done? I will share my experience, starting by steering the conversation toward topics of interest that may seem repetitive, but one must know how to formulate the questions and see as much as possible what the person can say and bring things that they haven’t said to other media.
Por más seria o divertida que se lleve la entrevista, hay que dar ese sentido de conversación, que no sea como un interrogatorio, que fue lo que percibí al ver los videos de dicho programa.
On one occasion I had to interview a very famous singer; his mother had just passed away and he was not going to talk about the topic, they told me. But it was a topic that would make a difference in my interview, without neglecting the purpose, which was to talk about his new album.
When the moment came to ask him about the moment he was going through due to his mother’s death, I led him to a special moment he had had at some awards where he dedicated that moment to her; then I asked the question. I remember he told me that he did not talk about personal things, but because of the way I asked and approached the topic, he was going to tell me.
Then, watching that program, how they bombarded Fatima Bosch, I said: they could have asked her about the topics she sought to discuss, which she even reminded them of, and they still continued to insist, hiding behind the fact that they were doing it in a “journalistic” way.
Sometimes going in headlong is not the way and it won’t be everything; if they wanted her answer, they should have found a way and surely would have obtained some answer. Perhaps not what they sought because, after all, the topics they asked about do not depend on her.
Whether we agree or not, whether we support her or not, what we know is that she has already been crowned the most beautiful in the universe.
What do you think?
