We've noted before the raw deal Ms. Braasch got in the media in the misnamed "Napping while Black" story. Particularly striking is that her exoneration by Yale from the charges of racially motivated harassment received almost no media coverage, even though the whole alleged story was supposed to be about racially motivated harassment and calling of the police. As law professor Michael Simkovic put it, in writing about the Lessig defamation lawsuit against the NYT:
[T]he cartoonish fictionalized version of reality that some newspapers attempt to pass off as critical information is in reality little more than a sadistic form of entertainment--character assassination as sport. Worse than entertainment which acknowledges that it is fictional, exaggerated "news" uses real people as its sensationalized villains and callously hurts them in the process.
That is exactly what happened to Ms. Braasch.
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