Sarah Koenig and her team are collaborating with Page 1,a film company that is making a movie out of the soldier’s story. This relationship prompts the question: how closely can – or should – journalists and entertainers work?A shrimp over two months ago, Sarah Koenig made an appearance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Questions approximately upcoming seasons of Serial inevitably came up. “I really miss the days when nobody gave a crap what I was doing, and ” modern York magazine’s Vulture reported Koenig as saying in reply. “I wish I wasn’t worrying that sources were going to call somebody and be like,‘Guess who I just talked to?’ It’d be nice to just be like a troll in my basement again.”So much for that. Thursday’s launch of the moment season of Serial, with Bowe Bergdahl, and proved that Koenig may never be a basement troll again. The rollout was swift and smooth: just two hours after it launched,it was a trending topic on Twitter.
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Source: theguardian.com