When Crystal
Mangum falsely accused several Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, there
were 160 television news stories in the first five days after the players were
arrested, but in 2013, when Mangum was convicted of murder and sentenced to 14
years in prison, there were only 3 television news stories, a difference in
coverage of 5,233%.
When the Duke
lacrosse-rape story broke in March/April 2006, it was huge news, garnering
massive, widespread coverage by the networks ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as by
FOX, CNN and MSNBC, and the print press, such as USA Today, New York Times
and Washington Post.
Basically, the
story was that members of the Duke lacrosse team had a party on March 13, 2006
at an off-campus house where two strippers had been hired to perform – one of
them was Crystal Mangum, then 27 years old. At some point there were some
verbal exchanges between Mangum and some persons at the party. Mangum left with
the other stripper and later that evening/early morning Mangum told police she
had been raped.- See more at:
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