As poorly as Herman Cain has handled the media in the days after his accusers have come forward (quite, in my opinion, and more poorly still with each passing newsday) it is remarkable how upside-down the media has begun to engage legal issues. The scandals that surround accusations of hate speech and sexual harassment must generate much more viewers/readers than boring, old-fashioned crimes that require the evaluation of evidence, etc.
Wes Pruden writes:
Sexual harassment has been established as a crime that only the accuser is entitled to define, and then at her lawyer’s convenience. The accused is not necessarily entitled to know who accuses him, or even to know what he is accused of. The crime is so heinous that the mere accusation is enough to convict. Why waste time on evidence?
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