Is it ethical to watch the new docuseries Chimp Crazy?
Slate writer Sam Adams gets into the wild true story of Tonia Haddix, and the deception it took to capture it
The huge success of the Netflix docuseries Tiger King put the director of the series, Eric Goode, in the spotlight as a conservationist and an animal rights activist.
His notoriety, however, made it difficult to get the access he wanted with his next interview subject: Tonia Haddix, an exotic-animal broker with a special fondness for chimpanzees. So, in order to film his latest project, Chimp Crazy, he hired someone else to pretend to be the director.
Sam Adams, writer and senior editor at Slate, chats with guest host Ali Hassan about the ethical issues raised by the new HBO documentary series.
You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Interview with Sam Adams produced by Jean Kim.