What happens if I don't get the television in the recreation room that my entire apartment building is supposed to be able to use? What happens if I don't sit there with a pen and paper, taking notes, and then spend the rest of the weekend rereading and rewriting everything that I have already read and written about the Rolling Stone case?
Is someone else going to contradict all the lies? Is someone else going to state the obvious, which is that Ms. Erdely was bullied for months by hundreds of her journalistic colleagues into doubting her work and fearing for her career and even her life? How many death threats do you think she'd be getting every week if she had an Internet presence at this time?
What's going to happen after the broadcast? Is the Internet going to explode again with all sorts of people repeating the lies that led the lawsuits against Ms. Erdely and Rolling Stone to be filed at all?
The interview and the leaking of selected parts of the deposition were a blatant and disgusting attempt to cause a media flurry right before the trial, and to intimidate the jury by manipulating public opinion.
Ms. Erdely was trying to help people who need it. That's all she was trying to do; that's what she has spent her professional life doing, and it's not a crime.
Copyright L. Kochman, October 13, 2016 @ 9:39 p.m.