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From: LindyBill	9/16/2007 10:40:16 PM
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Wrongly accused...by the Times POWERLINE In today's New York Times Book Review Jeffrey Rosen reviews Until Proven Innocent by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson on the Duke non-rape case. Rosen's review is "Wrongly accused." One paragraph of the review is of particular interest: "Nifong's sins are now well known, but Taylor and Johnson argue that he was aided and abetted by the news media and the Duke faculty. They are withering about the "lynch mob mentality" (in the words of a defense lawyer) created by bloviating cable news pundits on the left and the right. But they are also sharply critical of what they call the one-sided reporting of the nation's leading newspapers, including The New York Times. With a few exceptions, the authors suggest, The Times's coverage consistently showed a "pro-Nifong bias," most notably in a front-page article apparently trying to resurrect the case after it seemed on the verge of collapse." Rosen leaves it at that; I'm sure the book has a bit more to say about the Times's contribution to the lynch-mob mentality that supported the prosecution. Yet it's surprising to see the acknowledgement of the Times's role in the disgrace in the Times at all.

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