CNN Is Awfully Concerned About the Steubenville Rapists

Reporting on sex crimes can be difficult territory, because they carry larger implications about how we define such crimes and how we deal with them as a society. On Sunday, CNN became the latest to learn that lesson while covering the guilty verdict in the Steubenville rape case, when its reporters wound up sounding way too concerned about the now-diminished futures of Ma'lik Richmond and Trent Mays, the two teenagers convicted of raping a fellow 16-year-old while she was unconscious. Anchor Candy Crowley and reporter Poppy Harlow spent their segment exploring the effect the conviction would have on the "star football players, very good students," now that their "promising futures," as Harlow put it, will involve a stint in juvenile hall and a lifetime as registered sex offenders.

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