I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune.
Each event is related in the words of eye-witnesses or contemporaries transmitted to the final narrator through a chain of intermediate reporters (rawis), each of whom passed on the original report to his successor.
Often the same account is given in two or more slightly divergent forms, which have come down through different chains of reporters.
He made himself exceedingly unpopular u1 1810 by bringing about the exclusion of strangers, including reporters for the press, from the House of Commons under the standing order, which led to the imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett in the Tower and to riots in London.
Because reporters have to be seen to be morally and politically correct, I cannot condone these actions.