True Crime Revolution: Sarah Turney Part 2
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We continue our fascinating discussion on ethics in true crime with Sarah Turney, on topics ranging from leaks in the Delphi case, parasocial relationships in true crime, web sleuthing, family-member creator content, and the future she envisions for true-crime media.
Sarah Turney is the sister of Alissa Turney, an advocate, creator--host of Voices for Justice and Disappearances--and one of the fiercest voices pushing for radical change in true-crime media.
Sarah knows what needs to shift--she saw the worst of true-crime "entertainment" and media attention, and the lack of it, when her sister disappeared in 2001, and has experienced every possible situation family members and survivors face since then: insensitive headlines; misreported information; harassment; stories told thoughtlessly, or without consent, and more.
Sarah is on a mission, not just to team up with others who create what we've come to call ethical true crime, but to transform the entire industry for the good of the victims, families, and survivors whose stories it is built upon. In this two-part discussion, we cover some of the most current ethical issues in true crime today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Fall Line. |
| 0:25.8 | This week we're bringing you part two of our discussion with Sarah Terny. |
| 0:29.9 | She's a family member, the sister of Alyssa Terny, a true crime creator, and an advocate. |
| 0:35.4 | And over the past few years, she's become someone who's willing to ask some of the |
| 0:39.5 | hardest questions in the genre. |
| 0:42.1 | What is true crime entertainment? |
| 0:44.9 | What does it do? |
| 0:46.0 | What should it do? |
| 0:47.2 | What can it do? |
| 0:48.6 | How do we build a standard and hold everyone, ourselves, creators, audiences, large media |
| 0:54.7 | companies, accountable? |
| 0:57.3 | How do we protect victims and survivors? |
| 1:00.5 | Better yet, how can we support and empower them? |
| 1:03.8 | How do we actively participate in shaping and changing the industry? |
| 1:08.5 | So much of it is being created as we speak. |
| 1:11.6 | And podcasts on YouTube and TikTok, on Reddit, via social media. |
| 1:16.9 | Places where independent creators and audiences do have power. |
| 1:21.5 | So how do we use that to make change? |
| 1:24.8 | And what should that change look like? |
| 1:28.0 | How do we create ethical, true crime media that attracts and keeps audiences? |
| 1:35.1 | Because that part is vital. |
| 1:37.0 | These stories meet eyes and ears on them. |
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