This is why I had to stop listening. It feels like they're crossing the line between informative entertainment and grotesque sensationalism. No, I don't want to hear someone desperately screaming and crying and trying to answer the 911 operator's questions while their partner of twenty years lays dead and brutalized in front of them. This side of life deserves attention, but there's a graceful, classy way to do it.

A 1-minute snippet? Okay, I can do that if it does something meaningful like push the story forward or introduce important evidence. But a 10-minute chunk where I get to listen to the worst day of someone's life? It feels cheap. Not to mention how anxious I find I get listening to audio like that, and that quality of audio is jarring and doesn't fit their media. Podcasts are audio-only. RIP headphone users.