Maybe CNN Should Rethink How It Handles Sexual Assault Stories

NO, CNN. NO.
FFILE- This Jan. 17, 2001 file photo shows pedestrians entering CNN Center, the headquarters for CNN, in downtown Atlanta. The latest rough patch for CNN illustrates the two contradictions at the network's heart. In a brutal time for the news business, CNN is one of the few media organizations thriving while its most visible part in the United States, prime-time on the flagship network, is hurting. The company has built its brand on nonpartisan reporting, while CNN's audience tilts Democratic as much or more as Fox News Channel's audience is Republican. (AP Photo/Ric Feld,File)
FFILE- This Jan. 17, 2001 file photo shows pedestrians entering CNN Center, the headquarters for CNN, in downtown Atlanta. The latest rough patch for CNN illustrates the two contradictions at the network's heart. In a brutal time for the news business, CNN is one of the few media organizations thriving while its most visible part in the United States, prime-time on the flagship network, is hurting. The company has built its brand on nonpartisan reporting, while CNN's audience tilts Democratic as much or more as Fox News Channel's audience is Republican. (AP Photo/Ric Feld,File)

On Tuesday morning, CNN tweeted this:

Many, many people thought that trying to tease people into clicking on a story by using rape statistics was somewhat misguided:

CNN eventually responded:

Just as that issue was dying down, though, BuzzFeed's Dorsey Shaw noticed this chyron about the ongoing Woody Allen controversy:

Sigh.

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