<p>Today's culture is inundated with the 24/7 new coverage cycle and the role of social media has made some players in high-profile criminals into celebrities. What role do we as consumers have in absorbing the constant news cycles and are the televised trials and podcasts that deep dive into crimes doing more harm than good in our society?</p>

Today's culture is inundated with the 24/7 new coverage cycle and the role of social media has made some players in high-profile criminals into celebrities. What role do we as consumers have in absorbing the constant news cycles and are the televised trials and podcasts that deep dive into crimes doing more harm than good in our society?

Episode 5: Why is society wrong for making Gypsy Rose famous?

Taylor Swift famously wrote the lyrics, “Can I ask you a question?” While seemingly a simple query, it plays to the idea that we all have questions some we never pose and some we agonize over never being answered. Pop culture is overrun with gossip columnists, blind items and paparazzi photos in this predatory society we live in. But what if you actually got to sit down with your favorite artist, or athlete? What if you got to ask them all the questions you’ve always wondered? But here’s the catch, you can’t ask them questions that you’ve seen speculated on in social media. Instead, you get to ask them why. Why did they write that song? Why did that choose that part to audition for? Why did they sign with that team? Why did they write that book? Myspace was “a place for friends.” Whyspace is place where we get to know each other. Knowing why someone does something can literally change the trajectory of history. That being said, “Can I ask you a question?”

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Episode 5: Why is society wrong for making Gypsy Rose famous?