The previous post featured my transcript of part of Andrew Marr's interview with Nigel Farage, but the programme itself has now posted its own transcript of the full interview - a service they perform every week.
I know, in the scheme of things, that it's a minor point, but the AM transcripts all take the same form (naturally), so you'll see, say, the Damian Hinds interview this morning written up like this:
I know, in the scheme of things, that it's a minor point, but the AM transcripts all take the same form (naturally), so you'll see, say, the Damian Hinds interview this morning written up like this:
The Jonathan Ashworth interview is, similarly, written up like this:
The Nigel Farage transcript is different isn't just different to these, it's different to any I've read before (and I've read huge numbers of them). See if you can spot the difference:
Yes, 'AM' interviewed 'DH' and 'JA', but when it came to Nigel Farage 'AM' is interviewing 'F' rather than 'NF'..
As I say, I've never seen an interviewee simply reduced to the initial of the surname before in these transcripts. It's as if for them Damien Hinds and Jonathan Ashworth deserve to be thought of as 'Damien Hinds' and 'Jonathan Ashworth' but Nigel Farage is just 'Farage'.
If it's deliberate, then it's very passive-aggressive behaviour from the AM team member(s) who transcribed it.
