I don’t believe the accusations against Justin Fairfax, the Democratic lieutenant governor of Virginia. I don’t necessarily disbelieve them, either. At this point there is not enough evidence or corroboration to form an opinion on the matter one way or another. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence until his accuser can produce evidence to the contrary.
All things being equal, I would agree with The Washington Post’s decision to punt the story a year ago when it was initially brought to them. I would also respect the media’s exceedingly light treatment of the accusations. CNN didn’t have one single article about Justin Fairfax on their homepage this morning. A day later and they’d already banished the story to the cyber hinterlands. Objectively, in a vacuum, that’s probably the right thing to do. But we are not in a vacuum and things are not equal.
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