Straight from the floor at Toy Fair, 2014, Bloomberg Television sat down with Vice President and G.I. Joe historian Derryl DePriest to talk about G.I. Joe’s history and it’s present incarnation.
I’ll be honest, it’s not a softball interview. The host asks some hard questions about G.I. Joe’s military ties, about the role model it sets for boys, and about what the brand is doing to innovate, and to his credit, DePriest answers those questions, but quite artfully.
I find a lot of these interviews to be somewhat “more of the same” but this one stood out…it’s a good five minute watch, check it out.
That interviewer seemed to be continually trying to goad Derryl into saying something politically incorrect that she could pounce on. Obviously she didn’t like the ideal of boys playing with toy soldiers.
So she would rather boys emulate say, celebrities or politicians or reporters? Why is it so bad that boys try to emulate the characteristics of a U.S. Soldier. God forbid.
Oops, i said God, she might not like that either.
There was nothing wrong with her line of questioning. She seemed surprisingly well informed actually.
DePriest answering the technology question with articulation was pretty embarrassing though.