abc news ....another journalism oops!

zobroward
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:53:56 +0000

I have said duke lacrosse is a stain on the media, the university a large group of professors , the police department and the prosecutor. that travesty is a lesson for all of us on so many levels. I have mentioned duke lacrosee many times over the years. that said because duke lacrosse was beyond words does not mean this story is somehow ok. they are not correlated. are you saying shoplifting is not as bad as armed robbery…sure…but ethics of a journalists should be 100% 24/7/365. like I said i see many people do not agree.

as for duke…the media aside (they really really dropped the ball)…the prosecutor went to jail for 1 day. crystal magnum was not charged (she however is now in jail for homicide) no professors/administrators were fired. the school paid out the lacrosse coach and the lacrosse players. and duke bulldozed the home “for structural” reasons.
of course UVA and rolling stone had a lawsuit…the first I am sure of several. but duke was a lesson on to itself.