I don’t think corporations should be profiteering off prisoners, that’s not what I said. Did you read my comment? Where I mentioned paying a fair wage? I am talking about finding a way to pay the prisoners and create programs that actually help them once released—funding the rehabilitation process in a holistic way.

Because it gets them outdoors and out of the regular confines of prison life? Adds variety to the skill sets one can learn while in prison?

It’s actually nice to see people actually angry at the American “Prison for Profit” system. I doubt we’ll see any long term changes, but it’s comforting that my long-lived outrage at the whole thing is shared for just a moment.

If all you got out of it was “dude did it,” that’s you, not the series.

Yes! I think there’s a dynamic here where the cool kids want to show how much more sophisticated they are than the unruly masses who got into Serial by just blanket poo-poo’ing the entire show. And one of the ways to do that is to adopt the “clearly he did it, Keonig is a shitty jouranlist” critique. Well, ok then.…

I still fail to see how you are all so certain that he did it. There seems to be a cultural or even aesthetic need to try to show how cool and enlightened one is by bad-mouthing Sarah Keonig’s journalism and saying that people who listened closely were stooges. Ok, fine.

It legit scares me in these true crime type posts, how many otherwise open-minded people come out of the woodwork proclaiming absolute unshakable certainty in something they can’t possibly have certain knowledge of.

Yeah, I can’t take anybody seriously who’s floating the theory that Koenig was “in love” with Adnan. It’s a) sexist as fuck, b) ignores the fact that she says, multiple times, that she thinks it’s entirely possible that he did it, so even if she does privately believe he’s innocent it’s not like she’s pushing that…

“That sort of shoddy journalism”: Can you be more specific? Because I spent 13 years as a journalist, and although Serial had some unconventional aspects, I would describe it as generally meeting professional standards. Many attempts were made to get all sides of the story, and where people wouldn’t talk, alternate…

In some styles, double 1.

This is what’s wrong with America right here. This. Not Bristol Palin herself, but what she represents — the fact that so many stunningly, proudly pig-ignorant, determinedly undereducated, information-resistant people think they know enough about anything to tell others how they should think and behave.

Yes, Bristol, you’re absolutely right. The police who dragged a 14-year-old out of school in handcuffs for building a science project and subjected him to hours of racist interrogation without allowing him access to a lawyer or his parents are the real victims here. The police and white people everywhere. Can’t put…