"Live interviews are more difficult to distort"
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The subtext is defensive, but not timid. It assumes distortion is the default setting of media - not always malicious, often just structural. Recorded interviews invite narrative postproduction: pacing, framing, selective quoting, even the subtle violence of context collapse. A live segment narrows those tools. It forces the distortion to happen in real time, where audiences can notice the seams: the evasive question, the leading setup, the awkward cutaway. You can’t fully control it, but you can contest it.
Context matters: Jagger came of age in an era when tabloids and broadcast TV minted celebrities and devoured them with the same appetite, while she also cultivated a public identity tied to activism and politics. For someone straddling glamour and advocacy, distortion isn’t just annoying; it can reassign motives, cheapen seriousness, turn causes into accessories. The line works because it’s both practical media advice and a quiet indictment: if truth needs “live” to survive, the rest of the pipeline is already compromised.
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Jagger, Bianca. (2026, January 17). Live interviews are more difficult to distort. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/live-interviews-are-more-difficult-to-distort-41181/
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Jagger, Bianca. "Live interviews are more difficult to distort." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/live-interviews-are-more-difficult-to-distort-41181/.
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"Live interviews are more difficult to distort." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/live-interviews-are-more-difficult-to-distort-41181/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




