The 'Making a Murderer' Effect 

Members within these groups are also divided on whether or not the show is bias towards the two men. Fans are seen to have an emotional connection to the show, often debating with each other about whether or not the cases' portrayal by the Netflix docu-series is bias or not. 

 

There are several users that believe that the show is infact bias and that its purpose is to persuade its audience that these men have been wrongly convicted. On the contrary, the other side supports the narrative that is played out throughout the docu-series and denies that there is being any bias being portrayed. 

 

An article by the Times identifies the fact that "by the very nature of television" the producers of the show were never going to be able to produce a completely unbiased documentary and that some information about that case had to be left out. 

 

"Making a Murderer leaves its viewers with the impression they’re experts on Avery; prosecutor Ken Kratz, however, has alleged that key evidence reflecting poorly on Avery was left out of the show. What evidence does make it in, too, appears as though by the hand of God. While Koenig, through explaining her exhaustive journalistic process, made a claim for her show as close to objective truth, the Making a Murderer documentarians get there by eliding themselves from the story entirely. These are just the facts. By the very nature of television, though, they’re not all the facts" (D'addario, D 2016)