Do not trust the media. EVER.
A Smoking-Gun E-mail Exposes the Bias of The Hunting Ground
"Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, let slip the network’s own bias at the Sundance premiere, where he brushed aside anticipated criticism of the film by universities — which it smears as covering up for rapists — by saying that “they are on the wrong side.”
The Herdy e-mail, originally sent to Kinsman’s then-lawyer (and aunt) Patricia Carroll, and related documents were made available to this writer today by Florida State, which obtained the e-mail in connection with Kinsman’s lawsuit against the school.
A second e-mail from Amy Herdy, dated February 12, 2014, asked accuser Kinsman’s lawyer whether she was “ok with us sending [to Jameis Winston] the official request this week” for an interview. Herdy added: “I’m sure he will say no . . . and then I want him to have a gap of a couple of weeks to get complacent because then we will ambush him.”
Also today, FSU president John Thrasher issued a statement that the film’s claim that FSU and many other schools have turned their backs on Erica Kinsman and other alleged victims of sexual assault “contains major distortions and glaring omissions to support its simplistic narrative.” He added: “It is inexcusable for a network as respected as CNN to pretend that the film is a documentary rather than an advocacy piece.”
Thrasher likened the film to the notorious, now-retracted Rolling Stone article about what proved to be a fabricated story about an alleged sadistic gang rape, atop shattered glass, at a University of Virginia fraternity. The Rolling Stone article, Thrasher said, took a purported rape victim’s “story at face value without getting the other side or checking the details with other sources, including the accused.” He said that FSU had expressed to top CNN executives, to no avail, “our concerns about the factual, statistical and ethical defects in the film.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427166/hunting-ground-smoking-gun-e-mail-exposes-filmmaker-bias-against-accused
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