Recently, I happened to run into a video while I was looking for information for my research paper on rape and stumbled upon the "Steubenville rape case". I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with the case, if not, in 2013 a 16 year old went to a party and got so drunk she could barely move. Two star football players who attended her school took her to different parties throughout the night and sexually molested her. They later on laughed about it on social media and posted graphic pictures with disturbing captions. CNN was one of the many news stations that reported the case. To my surprise and as for many who watched, the CNN reporter was extremely bias in favor of the rapists.
The reporter says "these two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched as they believe their life fell apart." The reporter tries to influence the viewer to sympathies for the rapist over and over again by saying that they are "good kids" who now have their life's ruined by a bad decision. The reporter never mentions how this has ruined the victims life forever. This show that CNN has poor credibility and is not always unreliable. This just shows how you should not believe what you watch on television, even if it is the News.
I cannot believe they favored the rapists on what had happened. The rape problem has been around for awhile and I thought almost every one deemed it to be unethical even for star football players.
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