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Here’s Crime Culture Media’s Viktoria Evans reimagined as Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos to give you our elevator pitch:
How it Works:
When we file a FOIA (or similar open records request), we have to pay for the files. These fees add up, even when they’re low, and sometimes the fee is relatively low - for instance, the Israel Keyes interviews we recently shared for free on the Viktoria Evans YouTube channel cost us about $50.
However, sometimes the fee is extremely expensive. The reason the Israel Keyes interviews only cost us $50 is that the redaction expenses had already been paid by someone else (the files have to be redcated of non public information, and whoever asks for the files first pays the bulk of the cost). We know who paid them, and we know that those fees were close to $2,000 USD.
And that’s just one record request to one agency for one specific kind of file. We have made dozens of these kinds of record requests, and have dozens more waiting for the funds to pay for them. Only you can make that possible.
These files also require extensive work once we get them. The Israel Keyes files, for instance, arrived as a series of meaningless and seemingly random file names that took several days just to download via a confusing government portal - we’re still not totally sure we actually got all of the files, although we believe that we did. Still more files were sent to us through the mail via thumb drive.
We spent months combing through and organizing photos, as well as listening to and reviewing videos and audio recordings, to spend several more months taking the time to annotate, timestamp, and edit the videos so that they could be shared in a meaningful way (and to streamline the editing process of the documentary we knew we were making.)
Our Israel Keyes Life in Full Detail documentary is the culmination of that work, and we haven’t even mentioned the time and effort we put into writing a compelling, factual script, which took years of work, or the cost of equipment required to do this work, even in this new digital era where everyone’s an influencer using just their phone and some gumption.
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Get full access to Crime Culture Media and join the best crime, culture, and media community on the internet. Most of our articles are free until they’re archived for paying subscribers, and there’s also lots of great content exclusively for paying subscribers, like our Israel Keyes Life in Full Detail documentary.
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