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Slate / Dahlia Lithwick / Aug 27, 2019
“Even as we compulsively participate in endless debate enabled by our lizard brains and also Twitter, we should pause to recognize that our current reliance on journalism as a stand-in for due process has ended up meaning that accused men — who might have been subject to real rules of evidence, and procedure, and credible testimony — are being punished according to their own thresholds for shame and their best guesses about what behaviors the public will tolerate and for how long. This helps nobody: It does not serve the accused, and it does not serve the victims well, either.”
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