It’s now been 10 years since members of the Duke University lacrosse team hired two strippers for a party and were then accused of rape. The three players who were arrested for the rape were deemed innocent, the district attorney who pursued the case despite evidence to the contrary was disbarred and those in the media that pushed the false narrative looked like fools.
Except, in the decade since the hoax, members of the media have not learned anything when it comes to stories that confirm their pre-existing narratives. That was proven in late 2014, when Rolling Stone published a now-retracted article claiming a woman was gang-raped at a different university. It has been just over a year since that story went to print, but it has been 10 years since the Duke Lacrosse scandal and yet neither hoax has led to the media searching their consciences when it comes to allegations of heinous crimes such as rape.
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