Investigative Reporter Julie K. Brown exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes to the world. Now his survivors are fighting for the truth.
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I think this was great! I only put it as four stars because I only got to listen to two episodes because of the payment.
Slanted
Jul 28
MylissaR
More liberal rhetoric that skews the truth and reality.
Important work
Mar 4
رِزْق
Step 1: Spend every moment of every day following the story as it unfolds in real time
2: Do endless background research about what is, at the time, marginal news, because you know this is big.
3: Track down victims, sources, experts; reach out and wait for answers you know aren’t coming.
4: Reach out again—extra concise this time. Carefully craft tone and length for maximal persuasion. Send.
5: Record hundreds of hours of interviews, footage, narration
6: Produce the whole thing and put it into a nice package for listeners
7: Agree, reluctantly, to put up a paywall after episode 2, but convince your team to keep the price unbelievably low despite unbelievably high production costs
8: Release your magnum opus to the public for the price of a Big Mac.
9: Check the reviews and find people calling you “sick” or “no better than the perpetrators” because you had the gall to charge a few bucks for your last several years’ work
10: Ignore those whose opinions don’t matter and be proud of what you created
People, listen up: nobody owes you their free work, least of all top class creators and journalists like these. A few weeks after the subject of the piece died, we received years of rare and demanding work—because while we ignored the story, they made it their life’s work to put the story in front of us. Pay the effing paywall and quit complaining. We lucked out.
Sad
Feb 26
Junebug288
How are you any better than the perpetrators if you won’t release this viral information without forcing people to pay?
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Investigative Reporter Julie K. Brown exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes to the world. Now his survivors are fighting for the truth.
If you’d like to support survivors of sexual abuse, please consider making a donation to RAINN at donate.rainn.org.
BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein is part of The Binge - subscribe to listen to all episodes, all at once, ad-free right now.
From serial killer nurses to psychic scammers – The Binge is your home for true crime stories that pull you in and never let go.
Follow The Binge Crimes and The Binge Cases wherever you get your podcasts to get new stories on the first of the month, every month.
Hit ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com.
The Binge – feed your true crime obsession.