Girl Taken

Rob is a hero!!! Such a good guy. I still cant believe reza what a piece of work.

Sue really gets on my nerves in the later episodes and doesn’t respect or understand the complexities of the migrant crisis. She keeps pushing and says it is to tell his story but she keeps berating him, not even trying to understand and just pushing and pushing him telling him “what’s good for him”. It’s unethical and full of leading questions vs more open questions to try to actually understand. Rob is great but Sue goes off the rails and ruins the whole podcast. I hope she gets sued.

This entire podcast seemed like a projection of the host’s past and current failures. The story itself was engaging, but completely missed the mark. It began with Sue, the host, mentioning that she was fooled by Reza (although she is sure to mention she had a subconscious hunch!) and how this podcast was about Reza’s manipulation of those around him. Sue drops all journalistic integrity to stalk and out a refugee that was less than perfect all because he lied to her. She shows us her privileged, narrow-minded viewpoint when she paints Reza as a pathological liar rather than someone who may have had poor options in poor circumstances. I empathize for the mother, but this podcast may have ruined Reza and Gru’s asylum status. Unethical reporting, how did the BBC not correct this (especially episode 10)?

Thank you for sharing such a moving story