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There is nothing wrong with a reporter being photographed inteviewing people, unless the people he was reporting on didn't approve (no evidence in the story tha

There is nothing wrong with a reporter being photographed inteviewing people, unless the people he was reporting on didn't approve (no evidence in the story that was the case - and the article he wrote mentions that it wasn't the case). If his wife actually throught there was something wrong, that was a conversation he needed to have with her. "My wife will kill me" was a sexist comment, but not necessarily perceived as offensive at the time (although I certainly wouldn't trust his judgement if it was). By telling the story the way he did to the teenagers he is not just showing that he sexualised the people he was interviewing at the time but was revealing that he was likely sexualising the women he was travelling with as well.

tsimionescu 6y ago
> By telling the story the way he did to the teenagers he is not just showing that he sexualised the people he was interviewing at the time but was revealing that he was likely sexualising the women he was travelling with as well. Wow, this is really going past the far end. It was a story of cultural clash and slightly bewildering situation for a relatively inexperienced reporter at the time, to go from there to essentially accusing him of pedophilia is many steps too far.
- joveian 6y ago
  He was 44 at the time, 22 years after he started working at the Times. I don't mean to suggest that he is a pedophile (I could have phrased it better), just that he made a sexist comment that is based on seeing women as sexual in a way that men are not.