Suggestive Questioning

Suggestive questions are a very useful style of questions as by using them you can get the answer you want out of a person. A suggestive question is a 'leading technique' as it makes it known that there is a certain answer is expected of the question. Also like closed questions, suggestive questions keep the interviewer in control of the interview. Suggestive questions are also commonly used by news journalists as it gets the specific answer they want. However suggestive questions can sometimes be seen as aggresive as you as the interviewee can feel that you have no choise but to answer in a particular way as suggestive questions generally start off with "surely.." Therefore as you can see if it starts off like that then you feel as though you have to agree which is why it can sometimes see quite aggresive. On the other hand Louis Theroux is much more subtle at using suggestive questions therefore it does not come across as agressive.