The Journalist And The Voyeur: It’s Not So Easy When You’re The One Being Watched
About this episode
The episode explores the unraveling of a sensational story about a voyeuristic motel owner as a journalist investigates the truth behind it.
Gay Talese thought he’d landed a once-in-a-lifetime story every journalist dreams about: a motel owner who built a hidden viewing platform so he could watch guests in their most private moments and kept meticulous “research” notes for decades. But when Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi starts pulling at the threads, the story begins to unravel into something messy. A source who can’t stop exaggerating, and journalist who may have wanted to believe a little too much.
Topics covered
- journalism
- voyeurism
- storytelling
- media ethics
- privacy
- exaggeration
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