It wasn't me (but maybe there's more than one Heather M -- which was my name all through grade school*) --but I would absolutely be down with a Serial season 1 re-listen if we're discussing it here. I read Rabia's book a few years ago, and I watched the HBO series, and I even listened to Bob Ruff's podcast Truth & Justice while he was talking about Adnan. So I feel very invested in this guy getting a fair trial.
[PREPARE FOR A DIVERSION THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CRIME; FEEL FREE TO IGNORE]
*earlier today I was reading that it doesn't affect kids as much today to have a name in the top 10, because there is such a huge assortment of names that people use now (most of them stupid, of course). In 1973 when I was born, Heather was the #8 name in the U.S., and 19,350 AFAB* babies born that year were also named Heather. Meanwhile, the number ONE name in 2021, Olivia, was given to 17,728 AFAB babies. And there were a half-million more live births in 2021, too. Oh no, I am info-dumping again. This has nothing to do with anything. I just wanted to tell you that I am used to being called Heather M. But my brother had two girls named Jennifer Smith in his class, which was much worse, I'm sure.
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I love Crime Writers On but somehow missed that they are so critical of the journalism aspect of Serial. I’d be down for a re-listen especially if it would help point out just what Serial overlooked or downright got wrong…
Growing up in NC, we always called Fayetteville "Fayettenam." I love my home state, but the hold the military has on eastern NC is wild. These latest stats are really shocking. MacDonald (and the random kidnappings and murders for hire I've heard about over the years) was enough to put Fort Bragg on the "watch out" list, but seeing the catalog you laid out here is chilling.
Serial had the one of the key pieces of evidence that lead to successful appeals (the fax cover sheet) and didn't think it was important so bit of a journalistic whiff there, no? But really SK and Serial's take on the case lost me when she came back to do updates on the appeals and was so obviously intellectually checked-out on the story and wasn't actually across the details. I can totally understand that, given how intense the "serial phenomena" was and her reluctance to be defined by it is also completely understandable, but still ... really, Serial is a bit of a footnote to the legal story despite its cultural/podcast industry effect.
It wasn't me (but maybe there's more than one Heather M -- which was my name all through grade school*) --but I would absolutely be down with a Serial season 1 re-listen if we're discussing it here. I read Rabia's book a few years ago, and I watched the HBO series, and I even listened to Bob Ruff's podcast Truth & Justice while he was talking about Adnan. So I feel very invested in this guy getting a fair trial.
[PREPARE FOR A DIVERSION THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CRIME; FEEL FREE TO IGNORE]
*earlier today I was reading that it doesn't affect kids as much today to have a name in the top 10, because there is such a huge assortment of names that people use now (most of them stupid, of course). In 1973 when I was born, Heather was the #8 name in the U.S., and 19,350 AFAB* babies born that year were also named Heather. Meanwhile, the number ONE name in 2021, Olivia, was given to 17,728 AFAB babies. And there were a half-million more live births in 2021, too. Oh no, I am info-dumping again. This has nothing to do with anything. I just wanted to tell you that I am used to being called Heather M. But my brother had two girls named Jennifer Smith in his class, which was much worse, I'm sure.
*assigned female at birth
I love Crime Writers On but somehow missed that they are so critical of the journalism aspect of Serial. I’d be down for a re-listen especially if it would help point out just what Serial overlooked or downright got wrong…
Here for a relisten!!
Growing up in NC, we always called Fayetteville "Fayettenam." I love my home state, but the hold the military has on eastern NC is wild. These latest stats are really shocking. MacDonald (and the random kidnappings and murders for hire I've heard about over the years) was enough to put Fort Bragg on the "watch out" list, but seeing the catalog you laid out here is chilling.
I’m in for a re-listen!
Serial had the one of the key pieces of evidence that lead to successful appeals (the fax cover sheet) and didn't think it was important so bit of a journalistic whiff there, no? But really SK and Serial's take on the case lost me when she came back to do updates on the appeals and was so obviously intellectually checked-out on the story and wasn't actually across the details. I can totally understand that, given how intense the "serial phenomena" was and her reluctance to be defined by it is also completely understandable, but still ... really, Serial is a bit of a footnote to the legal story despite its cultural/podcast industry effect.