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Whitlock on Roberts

By K.C. Johnson

I am not a fan of Alex Rodriguez, to put it mildly. But I agree completely with Jason Whitlock's column:When since-disgraced district attorney Mike Nifong whipped up a media posse to rain justice on the drunken, male college students, Roberts jumped on the fastest, most influential horse, using her New York Times column to convict the players and the culture of privilege that created them.Proven inaccurate, Roberts never wrote a retraction for the columns that contributed to the public lynching of Reade Seligmann, Colin Finnerty and David Evans . . .At no point did ESPN?s TV anchors or radio broadcasters mention that Roberts was the same person who led the media charge against the Duke lacrosse players. I listened to Roberts? interview on Dan Patrick?s radio show...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on May 03, 2009 (boomark / email).