tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post7340230314286966047..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: Assessing the Postkcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-19702979028638725572007-04-29T20:55:00.000-04:002007-04-29T20:55:00.000-04:00Falling Short on Fairness, brDeborah Howell, Washi...Falling Short on Fairness, brDeborah Howell, Washington Post Ombudsman<BR/><BR/>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042702078.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-68273910748281094392007-04-27T19:09:00.000-04:002007-04-27T19:09:00.000-04:00You can't get any more knee-jerk than when Feinste...You can't get any more knee-jerk than when Feinstein suggested that Duke3 supporters were racist with his "the defenders of the right and the white" comment.<BR/><BR/>There can be no basis to question support for somebody who is being railroaded, racially profiled, vilified, and used as a political pawn.<BR/><BR/>It was an irrelevant and predictable shot in passing, and saying it puts him in the same category as twerps like Aranton and the Westport Wonder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-57724237465151185542007-04-27T17:52:00.000-04:002007-04-27T17:52:00.000-04:00Earth to Brodhead: Call for Nifong's resignation t...Earth to Brodhead: Call for Nifong's resignation to protect Duke students, dummy!<BR/>Here is what a professor of law had to say today about protecting Duke students from Nifog. Time to act now ,Brod, 'cause the facts are in!<BR/><BR/>Duke should also consider publicly calling for the resignation of Nifong to protect its students, argues Banzhaf. Here we have a rogue prosecutor who, if he didn't have a clear animus against Duke students before, certainly has reason to have an even stronger one now. Since he argues<BR/>to this day in his disciplinary proceeding that many of his acts did not constitute either a violation of ethics or of law, he is even more likely to repeat this sorry performance if another complaint against one or more Duke students is received.<BR/><BR/>"A DA with a clear grudge against Duke, who probably would like nothing better than to try to vindicate himself in the eyes of many of the voters by bringing a successful criminal proceeding against one or more Duke students, and who has shown a willingness to violate their legal and constitutional rights if necessary to do so, is a clear and present danger to every student on the Duke campus, and a risk that Duke can ignore only at its peril," says Banzhaf.<BR/><BR/>"Many feel that Duke let its students down terribly in this situation, but its excuse is that they did not have the facts at the time to know how wrongful the charges and Nigong's conduct was. Now that they have the facts -- from both the North Carolina Attorney General and the North Carolina Bar Assocation -- it remains to be seen if they will refuse to stand behind their students again by not even attempting to both sue Nifong and remove him from office. Nifong hurt Duke and all its<BR/>students, and Duke is in a unique position to take effective action if it has the courage to do so."<BR/><BR/>PROFESSOR JOHN F. BANZHAF III<BR/>Professor of Public Interest Law<BR/>George Washington University Law SchoolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-58420434766938137352007-04-27T17:24:00.000-04:002007-04-27T17:24:00.000-04:00I hope that a blogger with the skills, can email t...I hope that a blogger with the skills, can email the report to all the reportes who crucified these boys and were so unjust.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-14115407810544825472007-04-27T15:22:00.000-04:002007-04-27T15:22:00.000-04:00JUDY PARKER IS A DUMBASS.So typical of the trash i...JUDY PARKER IS A DUMBASS.<BR/>So typical of the trash in Durham. They live like trash, then they try to trash others, and will not admit when an even trashier rogue like Mike Nifong embarrassed them all over America and the world!<BR/>Go suck an egg, JUDY. You idiot!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-70648616910512865332007-04-27T14:16:00.000-04:002007-04-27T14:16:00.000-04:00Anne Hull of the Post is, hands down, one of this ...Anne Hull of the Post is, hands down, one of this nation's finest newspaper journalists. Her reporting is exhaustive, her writing is clear and detailed, and her reputation is impeccable. Anne's work has won her dozens of journalism awards, and is often cited in university newswriting classes as the standard to which all professional news organizations should aspire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-76615989848937186442007-04-27T13:45:00.000-04:002007-04-27T13:45:00.000-04:0012:23Lynne Duke's explanation of how the news busi...12:23<BR/><BR/>Lynne Duke's explanation of how the news business works is only true if another story is being written for the next day. Then she could write that, contrary to previous reports, race and sex weren't in the air. She didn't do that.<BR/><BR/>But if she wasn't writing in close time proximity to the original article, then, as soon as possible, she should write: "Due a reporter's mistake, the Post reported that race and sex were in the air at the party hosted by the Duke lacrosse players that resulted in false accusations of rape. The Post has subsequently learned that race and sex were not in the air. We retract the original statement and we apologize for the error."<BR/><BR/>That's really how the news business works.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04005282473833597181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-51832912658749718972007-04-27T13:37:00.000-04:002007-04-27T13:37:00.000-04:00Initial media deference to prosecutors confidently...Initial media deference to prosecutors confidently asserting that a rape happened is predictable and understandable. <BR/>No one wants media assuming that every prosecutor is lying.<BR/><BR/>WaPo should be commended for its news stories and its unequivocal editorial blasting Nifong. They tolerated some odd opinion pieces, but they didn't lose their soul. <BR/><BR/>WaPo is also the ony big paper that slammed the motives for the Libby prosecution, demonstrating a rare non-partisian show of common sense, fairness and appreciation for what these prosecutions do to government in the long term.<BR/><BR/>Contrasting WaPo's coverage with the near reverential treatment by our LA Times and the NYT shows that the Post did quite well. A shame we can't have their reporters here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-54747355859916082072007-04-27T13:35:00.000-04:002007-04-27T13:35:00.000-04:00RE: AG reportThey must have interviewed Nifong.......RE: AG report<BR/>They must have interviewed Nifong.....<BR/>Are they going to charge him with criminal misconduct (coaching the witness).<BR/><BR/>pandaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-59080103043744140432007-04-27T13:19:00.000-04:002007-04-27T13:19:00.000-04:00Question for John Feinstein:If the words in the "h...Question for John Feinstein:<BR/><BR/>If the words in the "hateful,threatening email sent out in the wake of the arrests",did not originate with McFadden, but instead from a movie, (known as a quote), should the movie writer, producer and actor who also uttered these very same words be labled hateful and threatening?<BR/><BR/>Should the 2 professors at Duke who use this film, American Psycho, in their classes also be labled hateful and threatening for allowing these words to be heard?<BR/><BR/>For a country founded on freedom of speech (no matter how offensive) how have grown men ever come to a place where they allow words to threaten them? This is emasculation of society! Whatever happened to "sticks and stones will break my bones but words can never harm me?"<BR/>(Note to self: Add American Psycho quotes to the long list of ever- growing words we are no longer allowed to say in America)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-78911319068520980822007-04-27T12:55:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:55:00.000-04:00The Attorney-General's report is here:Summary of C...The Attorney-General's report is here:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.ncdoj.com/DocumentStreamerClient?directory=PressReleases/&file=SummaryConclusions.pdf" REL="nofollow">Summary of Conclusions</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-87425290926926299872007-04-27T12:45:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:45:00.000-04:00from a non-lawyer / retired professor: Off the su...from a non-lawyer / retired professor: Off the subject, but WRAL is reporting that the NCAG's report by Cooper has been released. It should make for interesting reading (apparetnly a 21 page report).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-14497262332312911642007-04-27T12:41:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:41:00.000-04:00In response to the earlier query as to Bill Anders...In response to the earlier query as to Bill Anderson------He is a very smart professor who figured out early on that the case was a hoax. He is a fine writer.People interested in due process and constitutional rights should thank him as well as K C, J in C, Liestoppers, et al. Check his blog site:http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson-arch.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-5582906023966050432007-04-27T12:40:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:40:00.000-04:00Alex Makowski.... There is a link for William L. A...Alex Makowski.... There is a link <BR/>for William L. Anderson on the DIW blog site.<BR/><BR/>His post always add depth to the comments.<BR/><BR/>Waiting, waiting... I hope the AG report is really released today. The ACC lacrosse tournament is at Duke and starts tonight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-69952967472080817622007-04-27T12:38:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:38:00.000-04:00WRAL reports AG report has been RELEASED!!!cfWRAL reports AG report has been RELEASED!!!<BR/>cfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-10555248091524835572007-04-27T12:29:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:29:00.000-04:00Carolyn says:Judy Parker's letter to the Herald Su...Carolyn says:<BR/><BR/>Judy Parker's letter to the Herald Sun hotly defends Nifong: "We should be proud of the first-class professionalism this case received from the beginning." There was "such a coming together in the beginning to keep the city of Durham in a civil state of peace and to let justice prevail."<BR/><BR/>Hmm. Judy must have hit her head on the ceiling one too many times as she levitated in the bathroom of 610 Buchanan. How else to explain how 'something happened' to her brain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-31738010276104684412007-04-27T12:23:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:23:00.000-04:00I wrote to Lynn Duke after her ridiculous article ...I wrote to Lynn Duke after her ridiculous article and asked her if she would print a retraction when her fantastic, silly article was proven inaccurate. Here is what she said back in July 2006:<BR/><BR/>"Unfolding developments in an ongoing news story do not require correction.<BR/>The next time we write about the case, we will update our readers about it.<BR/>That is how the news business works."<BR/><BR/>Lynne Duke<BR/>Staff Writer<BR/>The Washington Post<BR/>1150 15th Street NW<BR/>Washington, DC 20071<BR/>dukel@washpost.com<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>I guess we all learned a lot about how the news business works. I have yet to see a retraction or apology from Lynn Duke...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-27391618994804735912007-04-27T12:08:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:08:00.000-04:00Good post, but who is "Bill Anderson". The name i...Good post, but who is "Bill Anderson". The name is dropped in with no context or identification?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-85558219300756783082007-04-27T12:05:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:05:00.000-04:00DNATestingDebrah<A HREF="http://jewishworldreview.com/0407/page042707.php3" REL="nofollow">DNATesting</A><BR/><BR/>DebrahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-81083638796348313062007-04-27T12:02:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:02:00.000-04:00Bill -- Wow, what a brilliant response. Now I will...Bill -- Wow, what a brilliant response. Now I will take your critique that much more seriously.<BR/><BR/>Come on, folks. Let's drop the absolutism here. Feinstein presented the atmosphere around the case as a complex one, with a couple of people doing outright wrong and a couple of imperfect people making bad decisions.<BR/><BR/>I don't think I agree with everything Feinstein wrote, but at least he's not just doling out knee-jerk putdowns of everyone who doesn't toe the D-i-W/JIC/Bill party line.<BR/><BR/>It IS a complex situation. (Not the criminal case itself -- there's simply no defending anything Nifong did -- but the ramifications among the media, the players and the Duke administration.) Admit that, THEN start passing out judgments on what transpired.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-18037421281282513222007-04-27T12:01:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:01:00.000-04:00Doesn't the Post demonstrate "actual malice" and "...Doesn't the Post demonstrate "actual malice" and "willful disregard" for the truth? I believe that the Post is but another paper that will be engaging a rather large number of its lawyers' time facing Mrs. Evans.<BR/><BR/>Don't any of these writers actually know the rules that they work on? You're untouchable, as long as you don't demonstrate malice. All these columnists and reporters could do was to wring every last bit of bile out. Idiots.Heyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08333291654356970407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-23239736088343403692007-04-27T11:55:00.000-04:002007-04-27T11:55:00.000-04:00This is somewhat off-topic but I'd like some help ...This is somewhat off-topic but I'd like some help please.<BR/><BR/>Can anyone tell me where I can locate the photos of CGM leaving the lacrosse house with the shaving kit?<BR/><BR/>Thanks much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-78243837344133148752007-04-27T11:42:00.000-04:002007-04-27T11:42:00.000-04:00K.C. did NOT engage in distortion. Feinstein clea...K.C. did NOT engage in distortion. Feinstein clearly was engaged in character assassination, not to mention he got his damned "facts" wrong. It was something like "yeah, Nifong was out-of-control, but this was a bunch of bad actors and gay-bashers and the like."<BR/><BR/>In other words, it was another of the "yes-but" comments we have seen from the state, somehow saying that a college party and a prosecutor using the vast powers of the state to frame innocent people somehow were morally-equivalent acts.<BR/><BR/>I have not cared much for Feinstein, but always believed he had some credibility. No more.<BR/><BR/>This was not journalism; it was character assassination.<BR/><BR/>K.C. defended me, and now I defend him. For those who don't like it, they can lump it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-46499781959915777442007-04-27T11:40:00.000-04:002007-04-27T11:40:00.000-04:00To anon 11:06: That's a pretty amazing letter from...To anon 11:06: That's a pretty amazing letter from Judge Judy, but I guess she remembers Nifong's words from the NCCU meeting. He noted that some people thought he should be moving faster, and others that he should be slowing down, but then concluded: "The fact is that this case is proceeding the way a case should proceed." That's an exact quote that I jotted down from a video, by the way. What he meant to say is "this case is proceeding the way a case should proceed in Durham, with the DA withholding evidence, lying in public, pandering to voters, and asking the accuser to pick three perps, any perps." But what the heck, something must have happened in there, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-72001217262342454272007-04-27T11:38:00.000-04:002007-04-27T11:38:00.000-04:00I'll take the Post's sterile reporting and the Dec...I'll take the Post's sterile reporting and the December editorial. Even with the slew of idiot columnist, the glass is over half full.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com