Group Discussion- Klosterman

1.As he talked with Ira Glass, we learned that Ira was projecting more than actually sharing, he edited as he spoke. However, if you sound sincere people are more willing to talk to you which is what Glass uses to interviewees to open up. This applies to the concept of the cultivated identity and how people try to seem like what others think they seem like. 2.Klosterman wonders why people answer questions about themselves. Why they would open themselves up to an audience they don't know and talk even though there is a good chance they can be misrepresented to that large unkown audience. 3.He tries to answer this question by asking himself why he answers questions. Is he a nice person? Is it just human nature to answer a question? Or do some people just like to talk? In some ways this is adequate because he brings up good answers to these questions but personally, I think that there is no standard formula why a person is compelled to answer a question. 4.Errol Morris talked about priviledged access and how we should be able to ask ourselves a question and get the answer. When talking about Rick Rosner he mentioned that people have a little black box inside that needs to be opened up and that talking it out with someone else helps to figure out what is in that box. Both of these apply to the idea of trust in the answers because sometimes a person doesn't know how to answer if they ask himself but when talking with another person, it helps to release ideas he may have realised he even had. 5.It is a reasonable assumption. If you don't like what is going to be printed you probably shouldn't be interviewed but I think faith comes into play. Having faith and being optimistic about what will come out of an interview is usually what compels a person to openly to talk, so that they are understood better or that we as a whole can understand human nature.