Well isn’t this interesting.
A headline this week:
The Victim Involved in the Infamous Duke Lacrosse Players Sexual Assault Case Admits She Lied
For those who came in late, back there in the Stone Age of 2006, three Duke University lacrosse players were accused of raping a stripper, a stripper who happened to be black. Her name: Crystal Magnum. The players denied the allegations.
And then.
And then the media went out of the way to believe the players were lying. Not to mention going ballistic when the three young men were acquitted. Eight years later, Vanity Fair profiled the story, writing this:
“When three Duke University lacrosse players were falsely accused of rape, in 2006, the media descended on Durham, North Carolina, quickly turning the case into a story of race and privilege.”
Today, over here at the university’s communications…
