Report:
Attacker Didn't Mention Duke, Athletes at Hospital
Headline
11 ABC TV has my vote for Headline Gaffe of the Year.
If I wasn't such a suspicious feminist, I would chalk it up to writer's ignorance and a sloppy editor.
Journalism was the career that I aspired to. I viewed it as an exciting and honorable profession. I would be the cloak and dagger heroine, interviewing dangerous, shady individuals and would get the REAL story out to the public. Deep throat, Woodward and Bernstein, Dan Rather, newscasters with their shirt sleeves rolled up, smoking cigarettes, giving us the very best of what they could dig up.
I'm not sure if this "news" person was just too eager to get his or her story out or that horrid headline has something to do with the mindset of the public regarding rape victims. Or accusations against college athletes.
Paranoia? Or shades of things to come?