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Thursday's weren't the same after NPR's "Serial" <a href="http://serialpodcast.org/>premiered to earphones everywhere in October.</a> A spoken word year-long investigation into a single murder, Serial has sex, drugs, death and a lot of second-guessing. If you haven't listened to it yet, chances are you're being left out of a lot of good water-cooler talk at the office. Why it doesn't suck? Because it's damn good story telling that will hopefully inspire more journalism just like this. "></a>
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Thursday’s weren’t the same after NPR’s “Serial”
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