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What my daughter found, with the help of a librarian, when she began searching the New York City newspapers, including the @NYTimes, the @NYPost, and my former home at the @NYDailyNews was absolutely disgusting.
Each newspaper played a role in the public conviction of the boys.
Less than 48 hours after the jogger was assaulted, the front page of the @NYTimes Metro section had a huge headline that said:
"YOUTHS RAPE AND BEAT CENTRAL PARK JOGGER."
They reported it as absolute fact.
They detailed the arrest of the 5.
Then boldly stated that they did itpic.twitter.com/a1ihbrHlkn
Has the @NYTimes ever apologized for this?
In article after article they refer to these 5 boys, first and foremost, as fully and completely guilty.
But they also use dehumanizing, animalistic language, over and over again.pic.twitter.com/E2feV3pAd9
I know we're holding the police and prosecutors accountable for what they did to these five exonerated boys, but THE ENTIRE CITY piled up on them.
Every media outlet (except for @NYAmNews) pronounced them guilty, broke protocols and leaked their names, and so much more.
Has the City of New York every apologized to the Five Exonerated men formerly known as the Central Park Five? They should. A settlement is not an apology. So many complicit parties caused their pain.
All day long, my daughter sent me article after article she found from April of 1989 from the @NYTimes & @NYPost & @NYDailyNews where each paper was absolutely brutal in their depiction and premature conviction of five boys who did not do what each paper said they did.
the paper of record.
We need to demand Craig Wolff is fired from his position as editor of that NJ newspaper he works at!
@briebriejoy if possible, could we please have an episode of this? #HearTheBern?
Trial by press. Not a good thing.
I remember those days. I was a kid and believed the newspapers because there wasn't another narrative. The truth needs to come out. And we have to learn the lessons of doubting the stories people tell.
Now it's trial by social media these days...or lifetime movies.
Man, the passage of time does not lessen the blow to these men. At all. Quite the contrary.
Yes, all this happened. And it will again if we don’t stand up, speak out and demand that our nation do better.
I just watched the Netflix movie. Unbelievable. Everyone needs to see it. 
Shaun, being from the UK we are appalled by what we regularly see in the US still today. We don't get prosecutors giving interviews saying what they think has happened. It's like entertaining news cycles are more important than protecting innocent people.pic.twitter.com/feBI7YLJ5v
Those poor kids didn’t have a chance.
They can say that, but now they won't call Trump a lying bigot because that might not accurately represent his intent? FFS.
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