Consider the podcast boom unstoppable. 36 Questions stretched the medium with an audio musical. Comedians are leveraging their podcasting platforms into TV deals. And now it seems, in the wake of Serial‘s runaway success, every week there’s a new true crime podcast that galvanizes Redditors into playing detective.
But growing pains persist: Some investigative podcasts, like Missing Richard Simmons, were met with backlash when they delved too deeply into the lives of their unwilling subjects. And one podcasting pioneer, Marc Maron, recently reckoned with the fact that one of his most famous and news-making guests on his show WTF With Marc Maron, Louis C.K., had been accused of sexual harassment. Maron said that he knew about the accusation and confronted C.K., who denied them. But some fans have argued Maron had a journalistic responsibility to ask C.K. about it on air.
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