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Dude, if that woman was interviewing me, I'd tell her to fuck off. Or at least to stop acting like a holier-than-though bitch with some complex about terrible partying teenagers.
Journalists are not meant to demand apologies and wardrobe changes from the people they interview. They're supposed to report the story -- and by treating the kid the way she did, she altered the story she was telling.
(Sorry. People treating teenagers like they're idiots/vagrants/possessed by the devil = pet peeve.)
Yeah, asking him to take his glasses off was a bit strange, is she his aunt? Let him make a fool of himself all on his own, I say (and those glasses are a great start).
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