Why is that? If a celebrity is being interviewed and that celebrity was recently divorced, he or she should expect that there might be questions about the divorce. Some celebrities might attempt to dictate the subjects to be covered in interviews, or even require the questions to be supplied in advance, but I don’t think legitimate journalists should agree to such terms.
I wouldn’t call Phil Robertson stupid. He’s convicted. Unfiltered. In his mind, he’d feel like a total pussy if he passed over those questions. He is not ashamed of his beliefs.
I also don’t understand how asking probing questions makes a magazine a tabloid. Why the hell would you want to write an article that covers exactly the same shit that every other article covered? Boring and not journalistic at all.
You’re calling the subject of the interview “stupid” and a “redneck” and you’re on his side? Personally, I remember that the guy has a bachelor’s and master’s degree, spent several years as a teacher and was smart enough to establish a multi-million-dollar business and savvy enough to exploit the redneck persona on a top television program, and as a result has no one but himself to blame when he is heard uttering stuff that offends people.