Butler, I wish the musings of Evan Thomas could be limited to his “status quo” comments. When interviewed by American Journalism Review about his miserable and dishonest accounts in “Newspeak” of the Duke Lacrosse Case, Thomas said:

“We fell into a stereotype of the Duke lacrosse players,” says Newsweek’s Evan Thomas. “It’s complicated because there is a strong stereotype [that] lacrosse players can be loutish, and there’s evidence to back that up. There’s even some evidence that that the Duke lacrosse players were loutish, and we were too quick to connect those dots.”

But he adds: “It was about race. Nifong’s motivations clearly were rooted in his need to win black votes. There were tensions between town and gown, that part was true. The narrative was properly about race, sex and class… We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place… We just got the facts wrong. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong.”

No, the “narrative” was wrong, too. But, who cares? “Newspeak” wins again.