On the evening of June 30, 2011, heading into the news vacuum of the long Fourth of July weekend (a void that would guarantee news saturation for any major breaking story), the New York Times published a lead article declaring that “Strauss-Kahn Prosecution Said to Be Near Collapse.” Based on two anonymous sources cited by The Times in this internationally significant sexual assault case against the former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, media across the world picked up the details in the story and regurgitated it over the internet, print media, cable and TV.
But what is now actually collapsing is one of the main assertions in that New York Times article; that Strauss-Kahn’s defense team did not plant this story with its reporters. In the first brief paragraph of the article, The Times used the phrase “according to two well-placed law enforcement officials.” In the second brief paragraph it stated: “…prosecutors now do not believe much of what the accuser has told them about the circumstances or about herself.” Those phrases in close proximity to one another left the distinct impression that the circumstances of the alleged assault itself were in doubt and the source was inside the District Attorney’s office that is prosecuting the case. More...
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But what is now actually collapsing is one of the main assertions in that New York Times article; that Strauss-Kahn’s defense team did not plant this story with its reporters. In the first brief paragraph of the article, The Times used the phrase “according to two well-placed law enforcement officials.” In the second brief paragraph it stated: “…prosecutors now do not believe much of what the accuser has told them about the circumstances or about herself.” Those phrases in close proximity to one another left the distinct impression that the circumstances of the alleged assault itself were in doubt and the source was inside the District Attorney’s office that is prosecuting the case. More...
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