#stown

[paulmichaeltranscribed]

You can listen to something hundreds of times and a sentence just hits you in the feels.

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[mazzato]

More #inktober2018 catch up. The clock prompt reminded me of the #stown podcast. If you haven't heard it, it's a pretty great little story worth checking out. https://www.instagram.com/p/BpOKGQ0BJyR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1k2fh8qyyrmou

[z4howard]

[sgerbman]

Creators of "S-Town" podcast sued

The estate of the man at the center of the popular "S-Town" podcast is suing the show's creators. The executor for John B. McLemore’s estate says the

I have no idea if the family of John B. McLemore has any legal standing against the creators of “S-Town.” 

But I do know that, after listening to the entire thing, I felt really icky and I wished that I hadn’t. There is a marked difference in the content of the podcast before he died and after. It goes off into extremely intimate and personal areas, and the people telling those stories in the podcast did not seem to me to be reliable narrators. They could have made it up; who’s to know? And if it was true, it wasn’t any of my business anyway. His friends violated the bounds of decency, even if they didn’t break any laws. 

The podcast did a good thing for me in that it made me think, really think, about where my own personal line of tolerance is on being entertained by something that is inherently tragic. I have a fascination with true crime stories, but also a feeling of abhorrence at the notion that someone else’s personal grief might be perpetuated by public consumption. Sometimes there is a larger purpose--finding a criminal, or locating a missing person, or even providing families a forum for sharing their grief and their stories. And that feels okay. 

I’ve listened to both seasons of the “In the Dark” podcast  by APM reports, and in both cases the families are interviewed at length in the  podcast and see it as a means to helping them find either legal justice or some sort of closure. I know it isn’t always possible or even ethically necessary for families to be involved. But it makes me feel better when they are. 

[thepressocean-blog]

#CBC: "Иск подан против создателей подкастов S-Town "

#CBC: “Иск подан против создателей подкастов S-Town “

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Поместье человека в центре популярного подкаста S-Town подают в суд на создателей шоу, говоря, что они использовали детали своей личной жизни для получения финансовой выгоды.

Крейг Каргиле, исполнитель имущества Джона Б. МакЛемора, подал иск в четверг в округе Бибб, штат Алабама

. В иске утверждается, что МакЛемор не дал разрешения на трансляцию интимных подробностей о его…

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[thebeautyandskin]

liste à mon préféré podcast,et mon youtuber préféré a aimé mon tweet

[focusedmiscellany]

After I finished listening to the podcast S-town, I had so many questions. One of those questions was whether or not I considered S-town to truly fit into the category of American Gothic Literature. For something to be gothic, it has to have certain characteristics. This is also true in order for something to be characterized as American.  

               Some of the characteristics that I associate with gothic works are things like isolation, mystery, and a gothic setting. S-town displays all of these elements, just in a more modern way than we’re used to.  John is in a town full of people, but he is mentally isolated. He is the only liberally minded person in his town. No one else seems to see all the problems that he sees within his town and in the world. John focuses in on things like climate change and racism both worldwide and within his town in Alabama. He is alone in his concerns and therefore he is isolated. There is also an element of mystery that is present all throughout the telling of this story. The listener is initially intrigued by the possibility of a murder mystery in a small town in Alabama. Although this initial mystery is quickly solved, the mystery surrounding the life and death of John McLemore soon captures the attention of the listeners. The music in this podcast also adds to the aspect of mystery. The music plays at specific points in order to amplify the feeling during a revealing moment. I’ve attached one of my favorite songs from the podcast that I feel perfectly encapsulates the mysterious sense in the story. Another aspect I noticed while listening to this podcast is the setting. John’s home, when described, sounds almost whimsical. He lives on a large piece of land in Alabama. He has created a large hedge maze in his yard that has 64 possible solutions and two void solutions. He also had a set of tunnels under his house with gates, that Tyler described as “dungeons”. These sort of things make John’s property seem like its straight out of a gothic story.

               Another important characterization of this story is how American it truly is. S-town is most certainly targeted at a Northern audience. This affects the characterization of S-town as an “American” story. While it focuses entirely on the south, it seems to have a gawking tone in which the actions of these Southern people are merely observed, rather than understood. Brian tells us about the things that occur in S-town, but he often does not explain why. This journalistic attitude greatly supports the case that this podcast is not really intended for these deep southern listeners. I feel like there are many parts of the podcast that southerners and northerners would have very different takes on. However, maybe this deep-rooted disagreement between the two halves of this country is inherently American. The sort of feud between the north and the south has existed for a large part of the lifetime of America itself.