Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Not at West Point

The headline: "DoD: Reported Sexual Assaults Up at Service Academies" http://www.military.com/news/article/dod-reported-sexual-assaults-up-at-service-academies.html?ESRC=eb.nl

The article begins: "The number of reported sexual assaults at the nation's three major military academies rose overall in the latest academic year from one year earlier,..."

The article concludes: "West Point reported the same number in both years,..."

The headlining and editing of this article and similar articles at CNN and other news outlets are misleading as they fail to distinguish among the academies by making it clear that the number of reports did NOT rise at West Point which had the lowest number of reports each of the two years. The articles are a wrongful affront to the cadets at West Point and the efforts at this academy to preclude such criminal conduct and foster appropriate relations.

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