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...While Smith has become a household name," Tom Brokaw intoned, "the identity of the woman has been withheld by the media until now, and this has renewed the debate over naming names of rape victims." The subsequent report not only renewed the debate but went a long way toward making her a household name as well...
...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...
Take the case of NBC News. Some feminists argue that withholding the names of women who have been raped subjects them to a second brutalization by reinforcing the suspicion that they are "damaged goods" who somehow invited their attackers to assault them, a rationale shared by NBC News president Michael Gartner. "By not naming rape victims," he said, "we reinforce the idea that there is something shameful about...
...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...
...Times did not apply the same standard to 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...