Slut shaming in the Buffalo News?

They must have, right?

Who was the source? What was his name? What is his position? What's his agenda?

 

I suggest you write a tersely worded letter to the Buffalo News editors demanding they tell you.

 

Over a "possibly false" allegation!

Hint: If something is "possibly false," it's "possibly true," too.

 

"Genuinely believe they were raped?"

 

Correct.

 

Don't act like newspapers always vet their sources.

 

So this is where everybody went ...

 

If they didn't, I'll be the first to say they shouldn't have reported it.

But you know as well as I do that anonymous sources are usually vetted more, not less, than any others.

 

But they weren't really raped, right? They just genuinely believe it? Christ.

 

RIP - July 2003

 

Possibly. This is why states and universities are passing affirmative consent laws.

 

Not convinced. There was this one reporter I know at paper in a different city, but our paths crossed a few times, who kept getting burned by anonymous sources. He used them so often there was no way they were vetted. And apparently, the reporter didn't have the guts to out his sources for feeding him crap.