I Love True Crime. Should I Feel Guilty?

Matter of Opinion

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

4.2 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Does our culture have a true crime problem? Jane takes the debate around consuming and creating modern true crime content to two true crime creators: Rabia Chaudry, an attorney, the author of “Adnan’s Story” and the host of the “Undisclosed” podcast, and Sarah Weinman, a writer and editor and the author of “The Real Lolita” and the forthcoming “Scoundrel.”

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0:00.0	Today on the argument, is it such a crime to love true crime?
0:15.1	It started like any other argument episode.
0:18.5	Your all-American podcast host, whose voice lights up a microphone, diving into another
0:23.8	nuanced debate of issues swirling around the zeitgeist.
0:27.6	But this time, something was different.
0:31.4	Your host.
0:32.4	Okay, it's me, Jane Kostin.
0:34.6	It would enter a debate that would complicate everything she thought she knew about the
0:39.1	most deadly genre in the world.
0:42.8	True crime.
0:44.2	Those two little words inspire a universe of feelings.
0:48.1	Obsession, revulsion, guilty pleasure, voyeurism, survivalism, questionable journalistic
0:53.8	ethics and standards.
0:56.3	But here's my deep dark secret.
0:58.6	I'm a true crime fanatic.
1:00.4	I've always been.
1:03.2	Other kids snuck episodes of 902.0 and Sex in the City.
1:07.1	I snuck episodes of Dateline.
1:10.5	My happy place is binging a new grizzly podcast or documentary show.
1:14.6	And I've never had so many options.
1:17.2	There's crime show and crime chonkeys and serial killers and Dr. Death and the dating game
1:20.7	killer and the jinx and conversations with a killer in my favorite murder and medical
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