Why did so many people listen to Serial and end up convinced of Syed's guilt?
is the way it became fodder for party chatter, where people would be like, “Do you think Adnan did it? Do you think Jay did it?” We are almost discussing it the way we talked aboutpresented the case that made that kind of discussion feel okay.I think it’s because these are all high school kids, frankly. It was the diary, the passing notes in class, the dating. The story was framed around high school gossip.
I think we can also agree that an investigation, especially when we’re taking their police at their word, should not be done in real time.Because it’s going to send you places that are probably not the right places to go. It was a cool experiment if you think about it, but it also put a tremendous amount of pressure on the team to come up with some sort of conclusion. I think the Dana Chivvis monologue about luck is incredibly harmful. I cannot believe that was left in the podcast.