today the president used one of his go-to denials when it comes to sexual assault accusations. telling the hill of carroll, she s not my type. you would think that prominent writer accuses president of rape is the very definition of news, whether or not the allegation is provable. and yet it was bizarrely missing from the front pages of most major newspapers. garnering this single column placement in the washington post. while carroll did appear on nbc nightly news, msnbc and cnn, the accusation was weirdly absent from political discussion on the news and it s fairly remarkable that it was. i can understand newsrooms being wary of a first-person account published in a memoir that they themselves didn t report out, but it s an on the record accusation of violent sexual assault with two people confirming that carroll told them of the assault contemn rainusly. that s a very serious allegation against the most powerful person in the country, following, we
provable. and yet it was bizarrely missing from the front pages of most major newspapers. garnering this single column placement in the washington post. while carroll did appear on nbc nightly news, msnbc and cnn, the accusation was weirdly absent from political discussion on the news and it s fairly remarkable that it was. i can understand newsrooms being wary of a first-person account published in a memoir that they themselves didn t report out, but it s an on the record accusation of violent sexual assault with two people confirming that carroll told them of the assault contemn rainusly. that s a very serious allegation against the most powerful person in the country, following, we should note, 15 other women who have made allegations of sexual misconduct against donald trump. the media s treatment of the allegation has not gone unnoticed. indeed, today the new york times executive editor said we were overly cautious in how they handled the story. there is a kind of perverse