MEDIA POLITICS-Early this month, Washington Post columnist George Will wrote a column claiming that being a rape victim is now a “coveted status” that college women seek out. Will argued that complaints of rape and sexual assualt on college campus were overblown. He also suggested that women claiming to be raped were “delusional.”
Will’s column is syndicated in newspapers across the country by the Washington Post, which bills him as “the most influential writer in America.”
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which has published Will’s column for a number of years, has had enough. In a message today to readers, the paper announced they were dropping Will from their paper and apologized for running his column on sexual assault:
“The change has been under consideration for several months, but a column published June 5, in which Mr. Will suggested that sexual assault victims on college campuses enjoy a privileged status, made the decision easier. The column was offensive and inaccurate; we apologize for publishing it.”
(Judd Legum is Editor-in-Chief .. and founder … of ThinkProgress. … where this article was first posted.)
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CityWatch
Vol 12 Issue 50
Pub: June 20, 2014
