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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17. In journalism, there's little of that ethical oversight, so New Journalism can lead to someone (like Talese) in highly dodgy situation.
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18. This was an addendum but quite a few people asked me how Hunter Thompson & gonzo journalism fit into all this.
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19. If a New Journalist is like sociologist going to orgy, then Thompsons' gonzo journalism was like psychologist experimenting on own mind
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20. New Journalist immersed themselves in events, Thompson took step further & also immersed his mind in drugs & wrote about that.
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