Why wasn't Jim Washington interviewed for the story?

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please explain in bold:
Why wasn’t Jim Washington interviewed for the story?

many thanks

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Which part?
There’s nothing strange or idiomatic there.

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Does it mean that Jim had played in the story and was interviewed as a famous person who had acted in this play ot had an interview which was conducted by someone from mass media?
interviewed for the story= interviewed in the matter of the story someone had played?

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The ‘story’ (newspaper article) was being written by the interviewer who is a reporter.
Someone is asking him why Jim wasn’t interviewed.

We can assume that Jim was involved in this event, whatever it might have been. (It isn’t necessarily a play).

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my minor question, is it correct, we say:
interviewed for the story - someone
but
an/the interview to the story?

thanks

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I would use ‘for’ or ‘of’ in both those phrases, but it’s difficult to see what you mean from just a small phrase. Could you give an example?

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ok, for example:
I was interviewd for the story.
but
I had an interview to the story.
What do you think?
thanx

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I don’t understand what you are trying to get at by saying ‘I had an interview to the story’.

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‘I had an interview to the story’->I mean: A reporter interviewed me to put the info from me in the story. - What do you think?
Maybe should I say: ‘I had an interview for the story’?

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That would be 'for the story ’ or ‘about the incident/occasion on which the story was based’.