On the other hand, non-western gender expectations are an important religious and cultural thing for the Taliban. Crapping on people's deep beliefs is not going to get you interviews, no matter how offensive you find them. A reporter's job is to interview, not to criticize or educate their interview subjects about why their beliefs are obnoxious.
No one said anything about criticizing. Educating is another thing entirely.
A reporter’s job is to report. Interviewing is one tool used to accomplish that task. If no one had been reporting, we wouldn’t know about the issue in the first place.. If all the reporting from Russia came from interviews with Putin we’d be missing a lot of the story.
Reporting is not the same as “crapping on people’s beliefs.â€
