http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/17/cnn-grieves-that-guilty-verdict-ruined-promising-lives-of-steubenville-rapists/ Via The Raw Story courtesy of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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Of course blaming the victim while showing concern for the rapist is nothing new in the mainstream media. In 2011 Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting did a follow-up piece to their 1991 piece by Laura Flanders criticizing the New York Times for their coverage at the time.
"After Rape Charge, Two Lives Hurt and One Destroyed" was the New York Times headline (11/12/90) above a story about a University of Rhode Island student who committed suicide before giving testimony to police about a rape he had witnessed. The story, by William Celes 3rd, presented the rape survivor and her attacker as equally "hurt," the real victim being the 20-year-old young man with "personal problems" who couldn't bear the memory of the assault he'd witnessed without trying to prevent. (Celes points out, however, that "some said the real victim was Mr. Lallymand," the man charged with the rape.)
http://www.fair.org/blog/2011/03/10/nyts-retro-rape-reporting-retur...
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