Researching an article

When researching, just try and ask as many people about your topic, and obviously you can use the internet. Something I would be quite careful of though actually, is check, check, and double check your resources because things like looking on, if you are just going to run something on google a lot of the time, you can’t be sure every time that those facts have been well researched because it could just be anyone writing on the internet. So you have to kind of double check all of those resources to find out whether they’re factual, but basically cast as wide a pool as you possibly can.

I interviewed a guy called Martin Campbell who’s a wonderful director, he did the last few James Bond films. He’s a kiwi, based in Hollywood, and when I got my information from my producers, one of them said he was born on October the 14th 1940, in I can’t remember, might have been Te Awamutu, and another information said he was born on the October 25th in 1958 in Wellington. So I asked him. I asked him about this, to get the right story and both of them actually were not quite right. So I don’t use the internet myself an awful lot as a resource. Like Julie, I like to talk to people and, and we have a wonderful resource at Radio NZ which is an information resource really, a library, and our staff there are very good at sourcing magazines and newspapers and that sort of thing. So I put more trust in those kind of printed pieces of information than I do in the Internet, as useful as it can be.