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Which are i think of documentary as a serious nonfiction programming with a sense of social conscience and socialjustice. thats often not what these true crime dock series are about. its more about sort of titillation and and entertainment. its an entertainment genre thats very popular. this real story had those elements, and so i think thats another that 70 people became engaged in it. i think it is something that is what you think about and even kind of wonder about culturally what happens to ...

“BRED FOR SUPERIORITY” MEETS ITS POLAR OPPOSITE Well, this was a crime worthy of Ocean’s 11. Or perhaps more appropriately IQ of 11. Twenty-one-year-old Royshana King (no word on whether she has a brother named Siegfriedshana) of Houston was looking to score big. A real caper, a real “this’ll put us on easy street” kinda crime. But what to steal? Where to hit? Jewelry stores? Naw, the good ones have that whacked-out security shit where you gotta go through a door into a little boot...

That segment had the twilight zone in it and gone you know, lost. it was a whole -- >> like a bad reality show. >> it was a bad reality show. >> cnn was the network that stayed with it weeks and weeks after most news organizations moved on. >> at that period of time with cnn with a new president, they were doing anything but news. they were looking for new nonfiction formulas. >> it was news, just news nobody could explain. >> except they covered it as world greatest mysteries or one of the real...