Here's a clue Ms Reporter - try not to make a story about yourself and how 'brave' you might be for asking a stupid question or interrupting the person trying to give you an answer.  I have seen too many 'reporters' try to one up the person they are interviewing - interrupting them, asking stupid 'got ya' questions, not letting the interviewee complete their thought in response to your question, totally unprepared to discuss the topic at hand, or trying to get the interviewee to say something that you can 'highlight' on the evening news, or 'rephrasing' their words so that it appears the interviewee is saying something completely different.   

In other words, try being an actual reporter rather than 'a star of the story'