Posted on 10/07/2007 2:06:39 PM PDT by moneyrunner
My wife handed me that part of the Sunday Virginian Pilot that I usually scan: the comics and the editorial page. I read the editorial page because it’s a useful guide. There are two kinds of guides that are useful: one who consistently point you in the right direction and one who consistently points you in the wrong direction. Both are equally useful once you figure out which is which. The Pilot is an infallible guide. If you read its advice and do the exact opposite, you are sure to get it right.
The Pilot felt compelled to editorialize...on the apology extended to the falsely accused lacrosse players by Duke President Richard Brodhead. ...
Since I have followed this story closely, and since there is a wealth of information on a web site devoted to this case created by professor K.C. Johnson Durham-in-Wonderland, at least three things about this editorial proved to me again that the Pilot is an infallible guide to wrongness.
First, the Pilot’s editors ascribe what they call the “rush to judgment” one of their favorite villains: “shock radio and endlessly blathering blogs.” This attempt to lie about the past may have fooled people twenty years ago when inconvenient facts could be swept down the “memory hole” but today there are alternative sources of information. Thanks to the magic of computers and the Internet, we can find out who said what and when about this case. And it wasn’t shock radio and blogs that were piling on the lacrosse players. It was a lynch mob led by
-Duke’s professors (the Duke 88) -the NAACP -and the high and mighty New York Times – the source of much of the Pilot’s news and opinion.
(Excerpt) Read more at moneyrunner.blogspot.com ...
"When the Duke players were charged, Brodhead acted by canceling the men's lacrosse season, ushering the team's coach out the door and instituting a series of reviews involving "campus culture," the interaction of the university and the Durham community, and reports of "persistent problems" with the lacrosse team.">
"Given the explosive nature of the events, and the glimpses of laxness in team oversight, those actions stand the test of time."
Unbelievable. The Virginian-Pilot thinks canceling the lacrosse team's season and firing the coach was right, regardless of the innocence of the players.
Most of of have learned that lesson well before we became the head of a large university, Rich. Somewhere around the 3rd grade, IIRC.
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