tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post1153504168717853151..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: Having watched Cathy Newman's Jordan Peterson interview again, I have to say she put in a monumentally lousy performanceScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-83580402530463748232018-01-25T16:21:57.292+00:002018-01-25T16:21:57.292+00:00You make me blush!You make me blush!Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-18463078767181490112018-01-25T14:38:40.692+00:002018-01-25T14:38:40.692+00:00Opening line of the blog post above: "Yes, I ...Opening line of the blog post above: "Yes, I know I'm late to this game ..."<br /><br />I intended the exact opposite with my <a href="http://scottgronmark.blogspot.com/2017/07/canadian-psychology-professor-jordan.html?showComment=1516234297056#c2794685817300368833" rel="nofollow">comment</a> on the Blogmeister's July 2017 post, where he was at least six months ahead of the game.David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-32278227287101652562018-01-25T14:29:48.612+00:002018-01-25T14:29:48.612+00:00Typically acute, ex-KCS, an unintentionally brilli...Typically acute, ex-KCS, an unintentionally brilliant interview.David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-79250157503962414302018-01-25T14:16:32.008+00:002018-01-25T14:16:32.008+00:00What's really strange about it is why Cathy Ne...What's really strange about it is why Cathy Newman evidently thought it was her job to debate Peterson, rather than conduct an interview. She couldn't even fall back on the tired old John Humphrys line about just asking the questions the public would want him to ask (er...no). I watched a YouTube video of a psychologist analysing the interview, and he suggested that the sheer awfulness of Newman's performance, ending in brain-freeze, was the result of cognitive dissonance - half of her understood the logic of Peterson's arguments, but the other half simply couldn't accept his conclusions, hence the desperate need to pretend he had said things he hadn't said. The best meme I've seen features Petserson on one side saying "I had bacon and eggs for breakfast" and Newman responding with "So you think all vegans should be killed." Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-12200008894034404392018-01-22T02:21:30.776+00:002018-01-22T02:21:30.776+00:00Yes, it`s a fascinating spectacle as she (or her b...Yes, it`s a fascinating spectacle as she (or her briefing team) increasingly runs out of ideas and arguments, until towards the end all she has left is to abandon script and go all Humphries Today programme on him. Ironically, for all that she descends into putting to him ever more ridiculous propositions that he has very obviously not made, in order to try and catch him out, she brings out a degree of analytical argumentation from him that doesn't always come across in his own lectures.<br /><br />So yes, she is completely out of her depth, huffs and puffs and cuts across him constantly but she still ends up bringing out a brilliant performance from the person she has interviewed. Top marks, Cathy. Job done. Unintentionally.<br /><br />ex-KCSnoreply@blogger.com