Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Recent Duke Lacrosse situation
I am a lacrosse player, and am obviously bias towards lacrosse programs all over the nation. In the Duke lacrosse case that occurred over the last two years; how would journalists react when the found out that everything they had written and heard was false? Would they just publish the new information? Would they apologize to the people wronged? Would the criticize the people who lied? And what would they do to admit that they published wrong information?
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There did appear to be a rush to prejudge the Duke lacrosse team by some in the media, including The New York Times. Here is a link to an interesting analysis of the Times' coverage. Note the use of the term rationalization (after the fact) as opposed to rationale (prior to coverage). A rationalization is a weak explanation of how the paper performed in it coverage.
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2007/04/times-no-harm-no-foul.html
Andy: Here is a link to the Duke lacrosse media coverage: Most media experts agree there was certain amount of journalistic overreaching by some in the media to give more weight to the victim and not the athletes in question.
http://news.duke.edu/lacrosseincident/
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