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I have deep reservations about the way S-Town was produced and edited.

I think it's likely Brian outed people who didn't want to be outed, who also happen to live in a violently intolerant society. That's journalistically unethical.

Brian also does a lot of bisexual erasure in S-Town and that's not cool either.

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I totally agree that things got pretty uncomfortable at times during the show, and the Brian Reed covered some perhaps excessively personal things, but I'm curious if you can go into detail on the bisexual erasure you mention. Are you referring to the perspectives on John's sexuality, or were there other instances I missed?

I'm referring specifically to how Brian talked about John's sexuality. While it's true that he eventually reports John's own words on the subject, otherwise Brian treats it as a dichotomy between gay and straight, and doesn't even talk about bisexuals, or even men who have sex with men (MSM), which is a distinct and important orientation in its own right.

I didn't think it was his role to explain this. The listener can draw their own conclusions from the material, I think.

Sorry for believing that journalists should report responsibly even in an informal podcast setting.

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