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...tabloid's pages are mainly devoted to lurid tales of purported affairs and the diets of various celebrities, its stories are rarely picked up by the mainstream media. But on the day after the Globe printed the victim's name and high school yearbook photo, NBC Nightly News broadcast a report on the disclosure...
...morning after the NBC broadcast, the New York Times included the woman's identity in a long profile so unflattering that it could serve as a brief for a defense lawyer trying to discredit her. A story naming the victim appeared in the Des Moines Register, which two weeks ago won a Pulitzer Prize for telling the story of a rape victim who, unlike Smith's accuser, wanted to have her story told. Other publications piled...
...naming the woman was in the best interests of rape victims, why did NBC wait for the Globe to publish it first instead of breaking the story on its own? Gartner dismisses the timing. "We've been thinking about this issue for a long time. We didn't broadcast the name because of the Globe...
...York Times assistant managing editor Allan Siegal gave a different explanation, saying that once the woman's name had been broadcast nationally, continuing to withhold it would be "an empty gesture." Siegal argues that the Times had the obligation of "telling our readers what we know." Thus the newspaper had no choice but to include the woman's name in a long article describing her "little wild streak" -- speeding tickets, an affair with the son of a once prosperous but now bankrupt Palm Beach family, a daughter born out of wedlock and poor grades in high school...
...another highly publicized sexual assault, the rape and near fatal beating of a jogger by a mob of teenagers in Central Park two years ago. In that case, unlike the Palm Beach incident, the victim's name was available in official documents. It was published by a local weekly, broadcast on a local TV station and featured on placards of protesters who claimed that the defendants were being railroaded. Yet in dozens of stories the Times never published the jogger's name...