5. Where New Journalism became tricky is when the writer starts having sex with the subjects of the reporting.
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6. Tom Wolfe wrote about gang-bang in (I think) The Pump House Gang which made it sound like he was there. He wasn't, actually.
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7. My understanding is Wolfe reconstructed the orgy based on interviews with the participants. Gay Talese has been less fastidious & prissy.
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8. In writing about the sexual revolution in Thy Neighbor's Wife, Talese actually had sex with his neighbor's wife.pic.twitter.com/SGzGUGphnr
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9. Talese nearly destroyed his marriage in researching Thy Nieghbor's Wife because "research" demanded he go to massage parlours & orgies.
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10. Talese: “If you want to write about orgies, you’re not going to be in the press box with your little press badge keeping your distance."
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11. In Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau had some fun with Talese's research methodology.pic.twitter.com/RaiDSEUrcD
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13. I think Thy Neighbor’s Wife offers good context for understanding the tricky ethical issues around Talese's New Yorker piece on voyeurs
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14. For Talese, immersing yourself in a story means to some degree merging your point of view with the people you are writing about.
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15. In a sense, New Journalism as practised by Talese has always been a kind of voyeurism. That adds to the unease over the new article.
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16. In sociology/anthropology, participant observers who immerse themselves in fraught subjects like sex or war have to get ethics oversight
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