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From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul Torek)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: The Dotson Case
Message-ID: <6078@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 23:37:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 23:37:16 1985
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Summary: It deserved publicity

In article <2220@decwrl.UUCP> daemon@decwrl.UUCP (Jim Dyer) writes:
>The Dotson Case___________________________________________________________
[...]
>	I'm outraged by the overwhelming media attention on this case.  One
>woman claims she lied about being raped, and we see it on the front pages now
>for over a month!  The Associated Press, in its neverending search for news
>that supports the _status_quo_ (read:  white patriarchy

I'm a fool not to keep my opinions to myself, but, GRRR...

The Dotson case was often on p. 1 of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, my local
paper.  Perhaps the coverage was defective or unbalanced, but it definitely
was a newsworthy case.  What outrages ME is that IT TOOK WAY TOO LONG FOR 
THE STATE TO RELEASE DOTSON.  The testimony was apparently the only real 
evidence against him, and when it was recanted -- Dotson should have been
released immediately.

>	Somewhere in all the brouhaha, the media has forgotten to mention a few
>very important facts:
>	    o Less than 1% of rape accusations turn out to be false.
>	      This is by far the lowest rate of false accusation for
>	      any crime.

Yes, I did notice the absence of mention of such facts.  But then, I didn't
follow the stories too closely; I may have missed such mention.

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