December 7, 2023

The Docket 12.07.23 The ethics of true-crime commerce

Sustainability, taste, and capitalism brawling yet again

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My esteemed colleague Britt asked how I/we engage with The Business Of True Crime without feeling exploitative, so we talked about inappropriate terms and designs; hypocritical piety; felony drop-ship; the Television Without Pity principle (i.e., if you don’t expect better from a genre, you won’t get it); and what to give a true-crime consumer this holiday season without anyone involved feeling gross. We hope you have some thoughts on that last thing, so have a listen, then…

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