Vox smart-thinkers Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias recently sat down with President Obama and a preview of their interview, which will be posted in full on the site tomorrow, is available tonight over on Vox’s Facebook page.
It’s not a normal interview, however — it’s a Voxy interview complete with on-screen graphics, artsy edits, multiple camera angles and even a music overlay. The production values look pretty good, but from the short clip that’s been released so far, it seems more like something that we’d see produced by Candidate Obama and not something from a website that claims it practices journalism.
Here are some screen-shots to show you what we mean. On screen pie charts:
Obama, the Vox Conversation is tomorrow.
A preview of the uniquely @voxdotcom approach:http://t.co/LqVKiSIuSM pic.twitter.com/DetcPzaAtb
— Trei Brundrett (@clockwerks) February 8, 2015
A blurred out president with a WSJ article in the foreground:
And because it’s Vox, fake flags:
Sheesh. Vox couldn’t use real flags in its graphics?
As for what we can expect from the entire interview, Tweeters think Vox will deliver what Vox does best … embarrassing mistakes:
Vox is interviewing Obama?
Makes sense, it's the only "news" org error-prone enough to make him look smart.
— Gulgorax (@MadcapMcQ) February 8, 2015
Oh, man. What a joke. The error-prone blog Vox will interview Obama. Lesson: the correct politics compensates for mediocrity.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) February 8, 2015
I have never read a Vox foreign policy post that didn't require major corrections so I'm sure their questions to Obama will be great.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) February 8, 2015
President Obama gave Vox an interview? That's worse than the Youtube interviews.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) February 8, 2015
Yep. The YouTuber who eats cereal while in her bathtub might just have asked tougher questions.
Here’s the softball from the teaser:
We’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see the entire thing, but if this preview is any indication, it’s going to be a propaganda piece, not a nominee for a Pulitzer.
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