Snyder, J., & Koenig, S. (2014). Serial [Radio series]. Chicago, Illinois: This American Life.
I actually listened to this podcast in its entirety with my family on our way down to Miami over winter break, it was a rather quiet 12 hours. Listening to this flow of logic from someone about what essentially boils down to one person’s life can be incredibly sobering. Its hard not to form an immediate conviction when you first start to listen and it’s even harder to lose it. You just keep subconsciously focusing on details that help prove your opinion. I would not go as far to say that the narrator does a poor job at trying to persuade me in one direction, the simple fact is that there is just such an even divide of information that I can fuel my own convictions. I feel like I have not given away anything that would spoil the podcast for anyone who has not heard it yet, but I will have to say one thing that is really to save yourself some frustration: this is an example of one of the most exasperating puzzles that exist, one without an answer.