Interviewers from big websites will never ask tough questions even if they knew what to ask because then they don't get invited to do the next interview.
E3 is all corporate theater.
Only Twitch streamers like Goth ask though questions and then you saw how Bungie changed the format of the whole reveal afterwards. "No more questions!"
A bad journalist will ask questions that the developer can't answer
A good journalist will ask questions that the above average viewer already knows
A great journalist will ask questions that get hintful responses.
Examples:
Bad - Whats the final boss of the Raid?
Good - Whats the new super ability (that you already clearly showed us in your ViDoc)?
Great - You mentioned that some older strikes are being reworked; Can you elaborate on that?
It was the IGN interview with Destin. For me it was the best interview because we know Destin being a vivid Destiny player (Fireteam Chat - Podcast). So I thought that the question while being unnecessary was a nice jab
I think he meant it as a question in jest, but he didn't deliver it the right way and then Deej took it seriously and made it awkward.
That was IGN, and that interview was 100% better than the Gamespot one. I don't follow games journalism whatsoever but it felt to me like the IGN interviewer had been following GAF/Reddit/Whatever and had some pretty pertinent questions. The giant shank one was misplaced, but he probably saw that post from yesterday at the top of Reddit and felt it was worth asking. He also asked about legacy weapons, vault space, etc. Pretty good questions if you ask me.
The gamespot one was hilarious because the interviewer didn't seem to know the source material so Deej pretty much just did his job for him and handled all the transitions into the new information.