This American Life producer Sarah Koenig has created a monster. Maybe.
She's producing a podcast called Serial that takes apart the story of a 15-year-old murder conviction, one week at a time, over a planned twelve-week period. Koenig is investigating leads even as she writes and records each week & claims to be only "70%" certain how her story will end.
The question she starts with is, who is lying? There's one guy in prison today (Adnan Syed), apparently convicted on the strength of the testimony of another guy (Jay), who was never in jail. Both of them were teenagers when the crime was committed, and one or both of them are (or were) definitely lying. The evidence is oh-so-sketchy. The victim was an 18-year-old girl (Hae Min Lee), the former girlfriend of Adnan.
Episode #6 will be up tomorrow . . . it's interesting on a bunch of levels. One is the basic question of guilt or innocence. Another is the competence/integrity of the investigators. Another is the meta story that's developing around the work that Koenig is doing.
Among other things, a large group of commentators has sprung up over at Reddit, dissecting the podcast and expanding the information presented by quite a lot. So you have this new art/entertainment form being deconstructed in real time by an army of armchair detectives, with the possibility of an innocent man being granted a new trial. I think Koenig & Co may not have anticipated quite the frenzy that has developed.
You also have a blog being run by the woman (Rabia Chaudry) who pitched the story to Koenig in the hope that it would get public attention to Adnan, who is a friend of her family and whom she's certain is innocent.
Anybody else listening? Fair warning: it's addictive.
She's producing a podcast called Serial that takes apart the story of a 15-year-old murder conviction, one week at a time, over a planned twelve-week period. Koenig is investigating leads even as she writes and records each week & claims to be only "70%" certain how her story will end.
The question she starts with is, who is lying? There's one guy in prison today (Adnan Syed), apparently convicted on the strength of the testimony of another guy (Jay), who was never in jail. Both of them were teenagers when the crime was committed, and one or both of them are (or were) definitely lying. The evidence is oh-so-sketchy. The victim was an 18-year-old girl (Hae Min Lee), the former girlfriend of Adnan.
Episode #6 will be up tomorrow . . . it's interesting on a bunch of levels. One is the basic question of guilt or innocence. Another is the competence/integrity of the investigators. Another is the meta story that's developing around the work that Koenig is doing.
Among other things, a large group of commentators has sprung up over at Reddit, dissecting the podcast and expanding the information presented by quite a lot. So you have this new art/entertainment form being deconstructed in real time by an army of armchair detectives, with the possibility of an innocent man being granted a new trial. I think Koenig & Co may not have anticipated quite the frenzy that has developed.
You also have a blog being run by the woman (Rabia Chaudry) who pitched the story to Koenig in the hope that it would get public attention to Adnan, who is a friend of her family and whom she's certain is innocent.
Anybody else listening? Fair warning: it's addictive.
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