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More than 48 hours, 141,000 signatures, and countless emails, Tweets, FB posts, and other forms of protest later, and CNN still refuses to admit its failure to report responsibly. Sign the petition at the Change.org  link below. Send your comments to the CNN General Comments address below. Boycott CNN and all its affiliates. This is beyond inexcusable

http://www.change.org/petitions/cnn-apologize-on-air-for-sympathizing-with-the-steubenville-rapists

Here is the full text of the email I sent to CNNGeneralComments@turner.com demanding an on-air apology.

Well, I have to hand it to you, CNN. I’ve watched you descend into the cesspool of tacky, unprofessional twaddle that passes for American journalism these days, and I thought you couldn’t possibly get any lower. Then I watched Poppy Harlow rhapsodizing over those two rapists in Steubenville, Ohio (still trying to get in good with the popular boys, Poppy? — most of us outgrew that in junior high), and I realized I was mistaken. This is a new low, even for you. To add insult to injury, you then had your so-called legal commentator ooze sympathy all over them because they might possibly be labeled as sex offenders. Well, I have some news for you. This may come as a shock, so I hope you’re sitting down. They ARE sex offenders. They labeled themselves as sex offenders by committing … well, you know … a sex offense.

 Meanwhile, the real news — like the insultingly light sentence the judge handed down — was completely overlooked.

 You owe the girl in this case an on-air and very public apology. In fact, you owe every woman who has ever been raped an apology. Heaping praise on a couple of criminals who have ruined a young girl’s life is despicable beyond all possible description. Frankly, if I had my way, every person who had a hand in your shoddy pro-rape coverage of this story would be fired immediately. There is no excuse for this. None.

 We’re waiting for that apology.

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