Rolling Stone's Top 25 True-Crime Podcasts List: Fight!
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Rolling Stone published “The 25 Best True-Crime Podcasts of All Time” a few days ago, and you might say I’ve got a murder of quibbles with it. You…shouldn’t say that, because it’s corny, but the point is that, while I’m on the record as sympathizing with the content creators who have to crap out these clickbaitsticles, RS’s manages to be both tiresome and baffling.
Just a few of my issues:
Crime Junkie? We’re still doing this, then. k great
I understand that My Favorite Murder and Serial are pioneers, but MFM should not come in this high anymore, and if you’re going to shortcut your top five with past-masters nominations, where is Breakdown?
In The Dark and Dr. Death are too low, and the latter shouldn’t outrank the former
No Neyfakh product
Again, people like what they like; again, while I don’t know that Serial still merits the top spot, I don’t know what I’d put there instead — I have compassion for the list-builders, really! It’s hard! But I’d like to know more about the process, because the opening graf says that the mag “polled true-crime aficionados about their favorite shows, then sifted through the top choices.” Okay: who was asked? Were participants asked to rank the choices as well, or was that done by the editors? Were they allowed to add comments, and if so, why couldn’t we see some of those?
The list isn’t a complete debacle or anything. It does have the sense to include You Must Remember This’s Manson season, and 2-3 garbage entries isn’t great, but it could have been worse (like, “rhymes with ‘ford and fail’”). It’s got me thinking, so there’s that. But is this list kind of weirdly not good, or is it just me? — SDB