[slowhandluke]

Nor was that the only place where the guilt of the players was virtually taken for granted, on either the sports pages of the Times or in other places there or in other newspapers. However, let me correct a misstatement that I made recently in this column to the effect that the Times' editorial page gave the same impression as its news coverage that the accused students were guilty.

There's another point to be made here on how the news and sports pages were used to deliver the "They are guilty!" opinion, yet it did not show up on the opinion page.

[jazusamo]

I agree and I’ll bet there were many editors and opinion writers just itching to get in the fray but were smart enough to realize they better not.