In our walks through our lives, we find many people who have an itch to find out what we are thinking at certain moments or during certain events. Many of those people asking those questions, or taking those photos, that sometimes we’d rather not be photographed during these moments or events, are doing their jobs as all media reporters, or bloggers, or to make money on their side of the street through any means they use (paparazzi, investigative online reporters, blog reporters, webcasters, livestreams, streaming news channels, and the old-fashioned news reporters and writers, free-lance magazine writers, TV and Radio reporters). Some of those “need to know” people might also be nosy neighbors, or people sitting at the table next to us, or across the bar from us in a local restaurant or watering hole, but that’s fodder for another article some day.)

I realize there are times when questions need to be asked and answers are sought as quickly as possible, but that is why there are Press Conferences, (pre, or post event, moment, or situation) which may be newsworthy and carry needs to know by news media and the General Public.

We watch many events that are televised on Major Television Networks, YouTube and other Streaming Channels, and sent over Satellite Radio, AM-FM radio airwaves, most any blogs there are out there, and one of my pet peeves is when they literally interrupt the flow of watching the event, by having interviews with managers, coaches, players, people in charge of a dangerous situation happening live in a school, community, or any other situation happening while action is taking place.

I fail to understand why these questions need to be asked in those times, and sometimes I question the same question being asked repeatedly. Questions like, “What is your plan to thwart this situation?” or “What tactics will you be using?” or “Can you tell us why this situation might be happening?” In sports, questions like, “What does your team have to do to take this game today?” That’s kind of discussing the “Keys to the Game,” over-discussion before the game begins. To me, the biggest key to most every sport’s team is to score better than your opponent, be they runs, points, sets, matches, etc. Another question often asked is, “How was that? or “What were you feeling when you hit that winning home run? (or scored the winning points, etc.)” I have a question to asked that reporter, “How would you be feeling if it were you who hit it, or were the pitcher who struck out the hitter, up with the bases loaded in a one run-game, to give your team the win? And why do in game interviews? Coaches have enough to say to their players at certain times between the beginning and end of a key game or series, and the questions they are asked sometimes sound like those being interviewed might divulge give the reporter some secret play or strategy they’ll use in the game. Most coaches are required to sit in pregame, and postgame, Press Conferences. Why do they have to be interviewed while they are supposed to be managing or coaching their teams?

I, and many members of my family, have had some health issues throughout the years, some of them needing being opened up to do a pre-arthroscopic knee operation, and pre-stent bypass heart surgeries, and joint replacements, and then after arthroscopic, and stent procedures became realities, it was still deemed serious when having to have these procedures done as well. Two of my brothers had to have serious procedures, one having NanoKnife Surgery, which bought Tom two years he probably would not have had if not for that surgery. (R.I.P Dr. Bro!), and Lou having his blood marrow extracted, then Chemo treated, and then reimplanted and is now going on six plus years of remission of an aggressive form of Leukemia. In 2018, I had a fall and two months after, I was diagnosed with a Subdural Hematoma about the size of a mini football on the right side of my brain. Fortunately, for me, I did not have to have surgery, as after being taken off my blood thinners which I’ve been forced to take having had three stents implanted in 2014, the pool of accumulated blood in my skull subsided without surgery. It took two months for the hematoma to shrink and allow me to return to normal situations. Like I said, I was fortunate, in both of my health emergencies.

I share all that information because I wonder if, with all the interviewing in many situations of our lives, will the day soon be coming when reporters can walk into an operating room, hold up the procedure being performed, and ask surgeons and medical staffs what they think the outcome will be, or ask them the entire procedure that will be used, as the patient awaits resumption of the operation?

I know there are times that people closest to others who are in those dire medical situations, to know what the problem is and the steps being taken to help their loved one, but sometimes things that are not life and death right at that time, do not need to be stopped by someone working the Networks, who are the real controllers of near everything that we read, listen to, and/or watch. Ask your questions before and/or after the situations, or events, and try not asking the same questions in every situation. Be a little more creative. End of rant. Thanks for listening.