Terry Gross vs Stephen Fry

I used to listen to Fresh Air with Terry Gross on public radio. I quit and I don't care for her anymore for various reasons. She has biases and makes assumptions that make her sound stupid at times, at least to me, and I'm not interested in pop music. But there are these questions she asks---here's an example from an article on "The Middle Mind" by Curtis White:

The critical moment in the interview came when she asked him (I’m paraphrasing from memory), “What was it like when you were in that car accident and your sister was driving and she died but you didn’t?” Was she leading up to a telling psychological reading of the work in question? No. She wanted to know and I suspect her audience wanted to know what it was like to be in an auto accident in which his sister died! That’s it. Do we learn something about writing, or the arts, or culture? Do we learn anything? No, we learn that he was traumatized by the event.

This came to mind while reading something on a BBC website. They ask a number of movie directors the same series of questions, one of which is "What's the dumbest question you've ever been asked?" Because the question is asked in an interview, they think of questions from interviewers, not idiotic questions friends, family or co-workers have asked over the course of a lifetime.

Here was Stephen Fry's answer:

...But there is a classic journalist question, which they should be trained never to ask and that is: "What's it like..." So you get: "What's it like working with John Travolta?" To which there's no real answer. You can be very literal and say: "It's like riding a cloud in a pair of cinnamon-coloured pyjamas, upside down on a Wednesday. That's what it's like." You know what I mean? Everyone always asks, "what's it like...?" What do they mean, what's it like? They just can't think of an intelligent question to ask.

Come to think of it, I don't like Fry either.