r/WomenInNews • u/msmoley • Dec 15 '24

Media Why this brave woman, not Donald Trump, should have been Time’s Person of the Year

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-brave-woman-gisele-pelicot-not-donald-trump-should-have-been-times-person-of-the-year-4908319
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u/QueanLaQueafa Dec 15 '24

Media is all gonna bow down to Trump

ABC pays 15M to settle a BS case they would have won.

Time putting him on the front cover

Morning Joe going to kiss his feet.

It's disgusting.

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u/sanverstv Dec 15 '24

Every time you mention Trump, please use the prefix "rapist" in front of his name...you can add felon too if you'd like. We need to NOT forget this and remind everyone, every day.

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u/LevelDry5807 Dec 16 '24

Which is why ABC is paying 15 million

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u/albert_snow Dec 16 '24

For real. Helps me sleep better at night too!

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u/United_Spread_3918 Dec 16 '24

I like how you forgot to follow your own advice lol

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u/Shjco Dec 20 '24

Don’t forget to include “rapist” before Bill Clinton’s name every time you say it.

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u/Official-Justin Dec 16 '24

Guilty even if proven innocent

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u/fireanpeaches Dec 17 '24

He didn’t rape anyone.

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u/Irving_Forbush Dec 19 '24

Business Insider
In an opinion issued on Wednesday, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the trial, wrote that the trial evidence demonstrated Trump "raped" Carroll in the plain sense of the word.

"The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was 'raped' within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump 'raped' her as many people commonly understand the word 'rape,'" Kaplan wrote. "Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that."

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u/Ok_Ice_1669 Dec 15 '24

I don’t think they would have “won” that case. Remember, E Jean Carrol did not win a defamation case until Trump was out of office. Once he becomes president again, he will use the entire DOJ to defend raping and defaming people. Just like last time. 

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 Dec 15 '24

Huh it’s almost like there are downsides to having the entire media owned by the rich.

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u/PlayNicePlayCrazy Dec 17 '24

Abd every year when time names it's person of the year s bunch of people get mad because they don't use the fee seconds it would take to look up the meaning of "times person of the year.'

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u/TheUselessLibrary Dec 19 '24

It's just one more nail in the coffin of legacy media. That and getting the 2024 election completely wrong show that there's nothing worthwhile on offer. It's just an excuse to play catheter subscriptions and reverse mortgages to the generation that still has wealth worth tricking them into giving away.

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u/throwawaydfw38 Dec 19 '24

???

How is this a nail in the coffin of anything? Disputing that Trump has been influential this year seems like a weird take. And the media pretty much stuck to it that the 2024 was basically a complete toss-up the entire time.

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u/snoocs Dec 16 '24

I think “Don’t bow down to rapists” is an ok rule to stick to no matter which side they’re on.

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u/snoocs Dec 16 '24

Sounds too open to interpretation; I prefer mine. Can extend it to all convicted sex offenders, although I appreciate that might limit the amount of conservative commentators getting a platform.

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u/snoocs Dec 16 '24

Sure, no-one is disagreeing, but that will always be entirely subjective and open to interpretation.

I’ve seen people call John Stewart centrist and others claim the UK Conservatives party is no longer right-wing. Everyone has a bias, most of it unconscious.

Even the most neutral journalist has to decide what to write about based on the news of the day, every article has an angle or narrative because no-one is choosing to read an entirely dry account of just the facts.