Baby Reindeer Is a True Story—But Whose True Story?

Richard Gadd as Donny Dunn in Baby Reindeer. (Netflix)
If you turn your trauma into the most talked-about show on Netflix—are you still a victim?
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Nora Ephron’s famous line, “Everything is copy” has often struck me less as advice for writers than permission to indulge one of our baser instincts: to search for the good story inside every bad experience. The classic journalist’s response to tragedy, so common it’s practically a cliché, is to reach for a pen—as if grief…
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