Cenk Uygur
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CNN's Disgusting Steubenvile Rape Coverage Or The Onion's?
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March 20, 2013
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March 20, 2013
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5:31Now Playing"CNN has come under fire for its appalling coverage of the Steubenville rape trial that was shockingly sympathetic towards the two teen athletes who were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl."*
CNN was overwhelmingly sympathetic to the Steubenville teen boys who were found guilty of the unrepentant, horrifying rape of a teenage girl; lamenting about their losses, while forgetting the victim and what she lives with. The coverage is shockingly similar to a parody made by The Onion, which seems to have predicted the awful reporting. Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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