ICYMI: Serial Didn’t Free Adnan Syed

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🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, Serial launched the case against Adnan Syed for the murder of Hae Min Lee in to the national conversation, but over the years the mistakes that show made continued to add up. Adnan Syed’s release from prison earlier this week would have been a great chance for the Serial team to admit their wrongs, but that was not the case. On today’s episode, Rachelle is joined by Daisy Rosario to talk about the impact Serial had on the culture, and the case itself. They speak with Rebecca Lavoie, a writer and host of Crime Writers On…, about what's missing from the podcast, the New York Times continuing to ignore its journalistic responsibilities, and how Serial is responsible for the current state of true crime culture. This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Daisy Rosario. Subscribe to Slate Plus at slate.com/icymiplus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We will liars.
0:26.3	New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:29.9	Hello, hello.
0:31.1	Before you listen to this episode of ICYMI, we need to address some oversights on our part.
0:35.9	We talked about Cereal, the release of Adnan Sayyad, and shared some of our critiques of
0:39.6	serial and parent company The New York Times' handling of updates to the case.
0:43.9	We wanted to make a passionate argument about how we communicate important information to our
0:47.7	audiences, and in doing so, we made some of the same kinds of mistakes that we were calling out.
0:52.1	There are two main mistakes that we made.
0:54.1	The first is that we did not reach out to the serial team for comment.
0:58.0	Also in the episode, Rachel said that Sarah Koenig described the detectives who worked out in
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