Unless it was some sort of Live situation, I think I might consider passing. I’ve never read her work to gauge what sort of ‘tone’ and ‘direction’ she writes with. My faith in any sort of accurate and positive message making it all the way
through to publication is right at about 5%. That raises a little with a live situation. Again though, I don’t know where she’s at in her journalistic career/view/ethics.
I would advise not winging it, have predetermined facts and treat the converstion like you are in court on the stand.
Anything you say can and will be used against you.
Wouldn't be live, since it's a newspaper. And I definitely wouldn't do an audio interview. The only thing I'd consider really, would be written. I think I speak well enough, I guess, but then it'd just be paraphrased, parsed, and put into what they want. If it were written, at least I'd have time to consider how statements could be used out of context before submitting.
I still remember years ago, my wife being interviewed a couple of times for written publications - a newspaper, a magazine. Absolutely nothing went in there verbatim, and they
completely fabricated some quotes, because they thought it'd look good. This was nothing terrible, really, to make her look bad or anything - they were just puff piece features, but it opened my eyes a little. Same kind of stuff happened with me, in PR press releases for industry publications. They just pretty much wrote what they wanted, and attributed it to me.
And that's what Oliviera does - puff piece stuff, usually in the Living section, rather than A or business. I looked her up after receiving her first reply. In the email exhchange, you'd find it hard to believe she was a writer. Even in the clip above: run on sentences, "I
feel like I do talk about the cases," poor/missing punctuation. It's been like communicating with a 20 something employee, expressing feelings rather than facts. I have no idea if she has an agenda on this, but working for a newspaper- I can guess her political leaning. My hope was to enlighten her a little, and appeal to a young writer that maybe wanted to make a name by actually digging up facts not presented on the front pages of all the other papers & media. Even a
little influence could help.