Amber Hunt is really self-righteous
I’ll start by saying I love investigative journalists who uncover stories that are buried by the police, government, etc. However. Amber Hunt inserts herself into her stories far more than is necessary. She is SO judgmental, and feigns ignorance about why her questions are unpleasant/irritating when her interviewees, guilty as they may be, get predictably irritated (“But sir, I just don’t understand why you, as management of this uranium plant, don’t want to go on the record admitting that exposure to radiation resulted in radiation sickness among your employees? I’m truly baffled as to why you don’t want to throw your company under the bus when the whole point of my story is that the victim in this story was murdered for exactly what I’m asking you to do. I’m just so confused. “ She speaks with total disdain about a woman in sex work and on 4 psychotropic medications as if those are character flaws - which belies her privilege and in my eyes really makes her ability to report objectively on anything questionable. Her upper middle class white bias is so evident. She rather insultingly translates a few interviewees when it isn’t required - notably the man convicted of killing Retha in one season. I’m a well educated white woman and I understand this man just fine; I don’t need the white-speak translation. In short - the stories are great; as a narrator, however, she grates on the nerves so much that I find myself talking back to her throughout the podcasts and skipping through portions where she gets on her high horse.
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