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The murky ethics of Gay Talese's 'The Voyeur's Motel'

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imageFor years, Talese's subject, Gerald Foos, spied on his motel guests.'Binoculars' via www.shutterstock.com

In order to report on a motel-owning voyeur who, for years, secretly spied on guests having sex, writer Gay Talese agreed to not identify the motelier, Gerald Foos. Talese even signed a confidentiality agreement that Foos had prepared.

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