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SplatterTribe:
What are some other interviews you have done that you feel were turning points or accomplishments in your career? (Answer continued from Chris Yandek Interview Part 1)
Chris
Yandek:
Kristy Yamaguchi was a big interview. (She's) the figure skater and Olympic Gold (Medal) winner. I was the one who told her to do the ABC show 'Dancing With The Stars' and then Kristy signed a contract with ' Dancing With The Stars. I can take some credit for that, obviously Kristy won that.
Legendary Sports Announcer Keith Jackson, I actually had a chance to interview after he retired from ABC Sports...(He's) one of the greatest broadcasting legends.......
I had a very interesting conversation with NFL Wide Receiver Randy Moss.
Those are a few.....George Foreman, legendary Boxer, obviously was definitely a highlight.
I know I'm definitely forgetting many others, but those are some of the biggest one's.
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The like of Barbara Walters, for example. (She's) someone who I would like to go toe to toe with, maybe down the road one day
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If you wanted to know what one, transcended my career? I'm not sure about (what one).
Definitely many of those have contributed to the success of where I am today.
SplatterTribe: A good interview is like a good conversation and those are interesting people to have conversations with. Have you learned any life lessons in these 'conversations'?
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Chris
Yandek:
Oh My God, I've learned tons of things from many of these
interviews. Many of them have taught me different things
through the many conversations we've had.
Diahann Carroll, for example, said to me after the
interview we did, to pay attention to everybody around me
and to learn everything I could.
Earnest Borgnine, obviously, is the lesson that you
should enjoy life everyday. That you can be here for a while
if you take care of yourself. You know, many of these people
have given me......what matters. What really matters about
your passion and who you are and stuff. I think that's
really what I've learned about myself. What really matters.
What I want to discuss. What I want to talk about...If your
asking the question of, "Have many of these people I've
spoken to given me a perspective on my life? Where I am?
Where I'm going?", then it's absolutely. Yes, definitely.
SplatterTribe:
So who's someone you have not yet interviewed that would
seem like another plateau on your journey? Some that you
really 'want'.
Chris
Yandek:
That's
a really great question. Uhm.....See, that's the thing where
I can tell you right off the bat that I have many. There are
many who I'd love to talk to. There isn't one in particular
that I'd really like to, but obviously people like Clint
Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, individuals like that.
People who have defined Hollywood, have lived the life. Who
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SplatterTribe: Legends and Experience?
Chris Yandek:
Legends
and experience for sure...Just individuals like that.
There's obviously some people in the media that I'd love to
talk to. The like of Barbara Walters , for example.
(She's) someone who I would like to go toe to toe with,
maybe down the road one day. There's a few others who I'm
really passionate about. That I would like to get close to
and hopefully over time I will get to talk to them. But you
know, you keep pushing everyday to talk to some of the
people you want. My dream, going forward, is to be the 'go
to' guy for many of these talents. I think you develop that
demographic, in that respect, from the industry. But it's
one day at a time. Yes, my dream, really, is to be the 'go
to' guy with these great individuals. To be the one to get
the first word. That's my dream, going forward, as far as my
career goes.
SplatterTribe: What do you think about print media? I don't know if it's just the economy or not, but I mean, there's newspapers shortening the days they run, some going more to the internet and some even closing shop, what do you feel the future holds for print media?
Chris Yandek:
Oh My God, yes, there's 1000's of national layoffs across
the board, yeah. Print media has a future, but it has to be
small and concise. We don't need all of this extra stuff.
For example, let's just take a big newspaper like The New
York Times, they used to have a whole travel section.
You don't need that anymore. You can go online and
investigate the places you want to go to. As far as opinion
columns go, there's, I mean, there's 50,000 blogs online. I
can get an opinion on any topic I want, on any given day.
You know, the main debate right now is...will people pay for
content online.
Do I think newspapers need to go to a
100% web product? No, but I think they definitely have to
trim their newspaper down to the point of where it's maybe
thirty pages of local news and that's it. Thirty pages of
local news. You got sports in there that's local, maybe
local entertainment or art a few times a week and that's it.
You've got the adds in between. It doesn't have to be the
news product anymore. We don't need all this extra stuff.
Here's the problem with newspapers.
They thought that people would still buy the paper product
and that this web thing would just be an extra way to make
some extra money. Many of them got, and I like to say this
in the nicest term, greedy. And because of that, we're in
the issue we are right now. Is is partly the economy? Yes,
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absolutely, because remember something, ok, the paper and the news media business as it is, is drawn by advertising. If the business isn't able to meet it's quota and able to keep their business afloat, the first thing to go is advertising, obviously.
Here's the problem, many business'
think it's more impactful to have a physical paper than be
be online, and I agree with that, because you know what, let
me say this, of all the online adds that I've come across in
my internet life, I've maybe clicked 5 or 10 of them. I'm
not for sure how impactful online adds are in the first
place, you know. Maybe they are impactful to some people out
there, but I'm, maybe not the average consumer.
The point is that, are newspapers
going to continue to cut staff? Yes, because we don't need
all of this stuff. It's online. It's free. Why should I have
to wait for a newspaper to come everyday. The problem is
that obviously newspapers, at least in the print (world),
can't get me the stuff (when I want it). I want it on
demand. I want it now. I want it up to the minute. Online
blogs and online news outlets have been able to do that.
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Do I think we are going to
move....fully to an online product? No, I don't think it
will be in the near future, but definitely newspapers need
to cut their pages, cut their sections. I'm sorry that
people have to lose their jobs, but we just don't need all
of this information. There's to much out there. I mean,
website's, like mine, are dedicated to celebrity interviews,
you know. That's definitely an online product. It's not a
newspaper product, because (online) anyone in the world can
see it.
I think national newspapers are going
to get by because they cover national interest. I think
local newspapers are going to continue to cut back in
certain places. They need to cover local news. They don't
need to cover national news anymore.
SplatterTribe:
See, I would think local newspaper would be more apt to survive because they are the only outlet for local news.
Chris Yandek:
Well,
they need to get rid of the people that are writing for
national coverage.
I mean as I'm sure you know, many of the local papers used
to have someone who was on a Washington bureau desk. That
would cover the presidency and thing going around
Washington. Local newspapers don't have that department
anymore. They don't cover Washington. They just take things
from 'the wire'. They're going to stay afloat, but they
gotta just cover local stuff. I mean, when you look at your
local newspaper, you have got a whole section for national
news. You've got all of this other stuff that local people
are covering and you don't need that anymore.
SplatterTribe: What about the other form of print media known as magazines?
Chris Yandek: Magazines go to a niche audience. Well, I'm not sure, if you've heard, but let's just go to the furthest gossip of it all, The National Enquirer has had financial issues. The publication The National Enquirer has had financial issues. Are website's like TMZ.com...taking away from that demographic? Yeah, absolutely. There's been a lot of celebrity news outlets that have popped up online.
SplatterTribe: And, of course, television plays apart as well.
Chris Yandek:
Yeah, sure, Television,
but let's talk about the online product compared to the
print product. We can tie television in later. The point I'm
trying to say to you is that.....you have...the print
product is putting out a weekly tabloid and maybe sometimes
they've got like national stories. Like The National
Enquirer breaking the thing on John Edwards last year, for
example. The point is those magazines are getting hit by the
online product as well because there's plenty of online
websites in those different demographics that are being
covered as well. Are magazines going to have products that
people are going to want because they cover certain things?
Yes, absolutely. But, why is the magazine industry hurting?
Again, add revenue. If you don't have add revenue. If you
don't have add revenue then that's that. I think, as
consumers, when their looking at what they can spend their
money on right now, I think they're, you know, obviously
cancelling magazine subscriptions. They're not buying
magazines in the grocery counter anymore.
As far as television goes, I think
television is going to be the one that's hurt the last by
it. I mean, obviously the television industry has had
massive layoffs recently. I know CBS had massive layoffs
recently. But I think television is going to survive because
television is television.......
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