It wasn't a podcast, it was the collective expression of disbelief when the story of how someone was convicted with such shaky evidence and sub-par representation. "If it happened to that guy, it can happen to me."
Stuff White People Like is a bit offensive to some people. Probably not great to link to it.
I can see that, as such, I redacted my post. Sorry if I offended anybody.
Upon further examination, that "disbelief" seems to be underscored by the fact that Serial was really after a nugget of definitive evidence against Adnan -- for someone to come in and say, "I SAW this and that, and Anand is guilty."
If anything, such plans backfired for Serial, and I'm glad they did because a podcast shouldn't attempt to manipulate mass numbers of people's emotions to sway popular opinion in order to manipulate justice "ex post facto." To be clear, instead uncovering their "smoking gun," as pixel says, that is the nail in the coffin for Adnan being guilty, he is now getting retried for innocence because of the very shaky evidence in the first place that would have served as the impetus for a mass witch hunt for the keystone.
It's as equally appalling and repulsive as the situation I originally described in my redacted post, and realize that the Stuff White People Like reference was more of an observation of our culture's very real problems with bias and others' beliefs ("Damsel in Distress" and "yellow fever") and behaviors (as sad and offensive as they may be) which has led to the aforementioned mass pitchforking I described earlier, rather than a representation of my OWN internal beliefs. Quite frankly, I am a bit offended that you couldn't at least give me that benefit of the doubt before jumping to such conclusions. My points still stand regardless of if and how offended people are by its contents (and it actually supports my argument if they are).
Fact of the matter is that it IS just a podcast (and shouldn't be misconstrued in ways that cause it to become a "perversion of justice" as so many have), and the fact that you interpret it as more than such might convince me that you're part of the problem as well. Not only that, it's arguably an abuse of the media to attempt to infringe on one's Fifth Amendment rights (imagine if Adnan HADN'T been convicted or if he had received LESS than a life sentence or if he was under consideration for retrial with a potential death sentence!).
There's a very good reason people stay out of the limelight as much as possible whenever they're in trial.
> Serial was really after a nugget of definitive evidence against Adnan -- for someone to come in and say, "I SAW this and that, and Anand is guilty."
No. I didn't get that sense at all. I think Sarah Koening tried to present this story in an objective and fair way. There is no way she set out to prove Adnan was guilty - for one thing, he was already in prison serving a life sentence and had one of his appeals denied.
>I am a bit offended that you couldn't at least give me that benefit of the doubt before jumping to such conclusions.
You use inflammatory language and argue in support of controversial points - it's tough to figure out exactly what you're talking about, much less give you some benefit of the doubt.
Stuff White People Like is a bit offensive to some people. Probably not great to link to it.