2 months ago Anonymous, a muck-raking organization, shed light on the town of Steubenville, which was covering up the rape of a 16-year-old girl by a bunch of star players on the local high school football team. A few days ago two of the rapists, Trent Mays and Malik Richmond, were convicted, and CNN's coverage--much like the town--was biased... in favor of Trent and Malik.

CNN can't be accused of lying in this coverage, but the problem with this coverage is not that CNN said untrue things: It really is a bummer for these boys to have to live with being convicted rapists, and it really is a bummer that their football careers are over, and that the boys and their families had to go through the stressful ordeal of a trial at all. All of that is true.

But CNN could have also focused on the embarrassment that the victim must have been experiencing in the trial, and her likely sense of vulnerability to future attackers, and what it must feel like to have a town shame her and implicitly take the side of the players by covering up her victimization. All of that coverage would have been true too.

The problem with CNN's coverage is that they focused almost completely on the tragedies felt by the culprits while glossing perfunctorily over the tragedies felt by the victim. In doing so, CNN effectively sent the message that, while a 16-year-old girl was raped at multiple parties, the real tragedy was that the young men who raped.