I don’t think you understand how the podcast works. 1. It is heavily, heavily researched, 2. It is more about challenging assumptions and media bias, than about building new ones. I don’t think it ever came to the conclusion that Tonya was innocent, only that the evidence suggests the initial take the public had was an over-simplification based on  a media narrative that pitted “good, wealthy and innocent” against “evil, poor white trash”, and that that media narrative framing is itself the object of scrutiny which the show used the Harding story to examine.  It’s always using prominent media stories to examine problematic bias in narratives. 

It’s actually an absolutely stellar series that made me think differently about how information is presented, and showed me a capacity for empathy I had never known before. I stopped listening a couple years ago when Mike left, but this conversation is making me realize I want to revisit it and see where it has gone since then.