“On Newsweek's coverage of the Duke rape case :”

— Evan Thomas

"The narrative was properly about race, sex and class.... We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place.... We just got the facts wrong. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."
:— Quoted in Rachel Smolkin, "Justice Delayed," http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4379 American Journalism Review, (August/September 2007)

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