Kavanaugh coverage

[Patchen]

I'm hoping for serious replies, all while knowing this is a loaded question.

However, is there a good-faith analysis somewhere about what the media got wrong and what it got right during the Kavanaugh uproar?

There seems to be significant fair criticism of the coverage and it is easy for me to see how some would regard it as destructive, false and partisan.
I'm also aware that when people are testifying and tweeting out sworn declarations in an issue of this magnitude, it is going to get covered.
When I look back at a few of the stories, I see examples where readers were given opportunities to weigh the credibility of the accusations, if they took the time. Those opportunities are often easy to overlook.

Again, I'm looking for some serious discussion of this issue.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

And you came here?

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

The biggest mistake made was everyone hopping on Avenatti's clown car - again.
That was an unforced error and made a lot of people look like fools.
And I still contend all of that might have gone down differently if he found other places to satisfy the attention he so clearly needed.
Hopefully prison will solve that problem.

 

[Liut]

And you came here?

Tip of the cap, sir!

 

[hondo]

Kavanaugh seems like a pompous windbag and his paranoid reaction in front of the committee to the accusations made me think there was some fire to the smoke.
However, there was no proof that anything happened. It was he-said, she-said. And her friends didn't corroborate anything as far as the facts -- just what she told them, hearsay that never makes it in a court of law.
Kavanaugh's demeanor and choice of words during the hearings, rendered him, in my opinion, unfit to be on the bench. But that's the only reason.

 

[champ_kind]

Without going back through a lot of stories, I don't know that I have a good answer to your original question. But as Hondo said, whether Kavanaugh did what he was accused of or not, he made it abundantly clear that he has no business being a Supreme Court justice. That was by far the most important revelation, and I'd say it got lost in everything else.

 

[swingline]

I like beer!

Please don't make me cry.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I like beer!

Please don't make me cry.

I have calendars from decades ago proving I'm an OK guy!

 

[sportsfan22]

My thinking on it was Kavanaugh and his buddy were drunk, and they did what drunk punks in college do, act like jerks. They probably wrestled her, tried to scare her, and coped a feel in the process. She remembered it being more serious and more threatening.

 

[Mngwa]

My thinking on it was Kavanaugh and his buddy were drunk, and they did what drunk punks in college do, act like jerks. They probably wrestled her, tried to scare her, and coped a feel in the process. She remembered it being more serious and more threatening.

Nah. I think they got drunk and tried to f*** her even though she didn't want to.

 

[stix]

What happened to the 1977 Gator Bowl MVP that I missed?

 

[hondo]

What happened to the 1977 Gator Bowl MVP that I missed?

That was Cavanaugh with a "C."