I feel like my mails are always critical of NL (and almost exclusively of Abhinandan). But I expect nothing but excellence from NL, and when that doesn't happen, I feel the need call it out, because I, like many subscribers, want NL to do well and gain wider audience.
So, the Salvatore Babones interview. Sigh! I really didn't understand the point of it. What were we trying to achieve? Was it an interview about his life, about the statements he made, about his ideologies and beliefs, about his politics – it was such a muddle and not a good interview at all. It was a "gotcha" interview without any clear "gotchas"! I didn't really learn anything and don't even know why I spent an hour of my life on Mr Babones. Maybe this was a miss, but I feel like we need to do better with interviewing those from the other end of the spectrum – biases clearly come out in these interviews.
