Even journalists who want to help victims and who aren't afraid to do the investigations will be vetoed by their editors, or the publishers; the risk of being publicly humiliated and sued will terrify everyone.
The more powerful the rapists, the less probable it will be that the rapes get reported at all, by the victims or anyone else.
That's the goal which the conglomerate has spent almost 7 years achieving, and the conglomerate is winning.
How does anyone think that the University of Wisconsin student was able to sexually assault so many women before he was finally arrested? The discrediting of the Rolling Stone article is the newest Bogeyman of rape journalism; every few years, when a socially inconsequential person is gang raped by powerful people, that Bogeyman gets another incarnation.
I'm the first to admit that the Central Park Jogger case is a murder case; she would have died if she were poor, and if her employer hadn't helped to pay her medical bills.
Copyright L. Kochman, November 4, 2016 @ 5:26 p.m.
