The New York Times Will Sacrifice What Little Is Left of Its Credibility….
….. over the Duke lacrosse player prosecution vendetta:
Imagine ….. you have invested your credibility in yet another story line that is falling apart …… What to do?
If you’re the New York Times and the story is the alleged gang rape of a black woman by three white Duke lacrosse players—a claim shown by mounting evidence to be almost certainly fraudulent—you tone down your rhetoric while doing your utmost to prop up a case that’s been almost wholly driven by prosecutorial and police misconduct.
From the Times’ perspective, if three stupid but from all current appearances not criminal college students get dragged in the mud for a better part of year while their families spend a fortune on attorneys’ fees, it’s “too bad, so sad.”
No clean words exist to describe how outrageous this is.
