Ira Glass on story telling

listening to Angela Merkels speak about the change in energy production, i had to think of an advice from the famous radio reporter Ira Glass for performing on broadcast:
“you don’t underline every third word for emphasis because it sound really unnatural.”
anyway, more to the point i dug and found the video where he was talking about this and other things, since i find a lot of what he says applied equally to making films art so i thought i share:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxJ3FtCJJA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW6x7lOIsPE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baCJFAGEuJM
enjoy
(christoph)