Every story nowadays uses an interview with a person who is relevant to the story. If you are writing a story about layoffs, it is imperative to get an interview with someone being laid off.
Is this good or bad:
On the one hand, this keeps mere statistics from being overwhelming: "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." At the same time, it builds an extra, unnecessary layer of bias into stories.
Overall, I'm sure magazines and newspapers do this because it makes stories more interesting (meaning more money), but I can't decide if it is good for 'the state of journalism' or not.
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