Folks, one of the things that's sort of amazing about the industry that I inhabit, the news

industry, the news commentary industry, is that so many stories that have an outsized national

impact turn out to be completely the other way upon further review.

One of the sort of incentive structures for the news business is being firstest with the most

is get to the story fast, report it incredibly quickly.

And then it turns out that much of the reporting ends up being false and then in retrospect it has done significant damage

this is true with a lot of the reporting about say COVID or Black Lives Matter one of these

signal examples of this is now being exposed for all the world to see if you remember all the

back to 2006 this is 18 years, so a lot of my listeners,

where younger people don't remember this case.

This case, the Duke Lacrosse rape case, was actually the inciting event for a wide variety

of movements that would come into full flower over the course of the subsequent 10 years,

particularly over the course of the Obama era.

The Duke LaCross case was an inciting

incident for things like Black Lives Matter, this idea that black people in America had a boot

on their throat from a justice system that did not care about it, that white privileged people

were beating up on underprivileged black people. This was the source of an enormous amount of the Me Too movement,

this idea that a stripper who accused a series of rich white Duke lacrosse players

of having sexually assaulted her, that she had not been given a fair shake,

you sort of believe all women movement.

This is one of the biggest cases in American criminal justice history, specifically because of all of its ripple effect.

Well, now, the stripper at the center of that case, a woman named Crystal Mangum, is admitting that she lied back in 2006.

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