‘Believe women’ journalism brought the Jeffrey Epstein story back

This article is mentioned about child sexual abuse.

The story that will not die – American finance and child sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s sex smuggling and money laundering – tells us a lot about the intersection of high finance and the elite circulating.

But where did this renewed focus come about? Most of the controversial events took place more than twenty years ago. Even now, Donald Trump is trying to explain his anger in Epstein, a 16-year-old Virginia Giufre, a 16-year-old Mar-A-Lago Spa in 2000.

Short Answer Journalism, especially the change in which journalists follow the news and resources New York Times‘In 2017, the Harvey Weinstein scandal is broken. The reporting of violence and abuse according to the situation was gradually caring news. NYT In the systemic patterns of sexual abuse and violence, he restarted with the #Metoo Foundation by mocked the ugly point where gender and power is where the weave of power is.

In the case of Epstein, it was a difficult torment of watching the story from victim to the victim, especially . Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown In 2018, about ten years after the laws were washed the hands of the case with a soft defense agreement that protects Epstein without further prosecution.

He paid. “If not Miami Herald Reporter Julie K. Brown, Jeffrey Epstein’s sex smuggling operation, rich, powerful, effective men, and the existence of large files documenting all of them, ”he wrote Jennifer Rubin wrote Jennifer Rubin Last month Bulletin.

(Conservative Never Trump from Jeff Bezos and New Refugee ‘ Washington PostRubin now maybe he wrote overly optimistic Resistance: How did women save democracy from Donald Trump About how the US President was angry and engaged in American women in the first period.)

As a journalist, “Believe in the past)“ Believe in Women ”Gambit requires the doubts hidden in the defense crouches of traditional journalism guidelines, direct quotes, which are reliable for important men, and“ eh, what he says ”.

Inside Meditations in an emergency Bulletin, Rebecca Solnit wrote this week: “One of the reasons why this violence is accepted so much is not the news in the most real sense – there are tides of hate and violence against other groups, but violence against women is global and durable, rather than an event.”

This change in the scope of this skin leans and makes news of abuse by witnessing women who are exploited to cancel the weight of the word “respected” gentleman. Weakness can crush elite power along the pure scale.

It is more difficult to seem to traumatized sources based on a care ethics approaching with a sensitivity that many (especially male) journalists are struggling with.

Here we saw how it works in Australia. News Corp initially discussed #Metoo as another opportunity for the famous poor quality gossip, while Australian media took the moment when ABC’s Louise Milligan’s “believing women” gaze brought the intensity of Canberra’s Parliamentary House Culture At the end of 2020 and early 2021, he triggered the flight of liberal women from the Liberal Party (as well as many other things).

When Julie K. Brown began her work, the Epstein moment looked safe in the rearview mirror. The US lawyer Alexander Acosta, who was appointed as the Supreme Court of Appeals, was in the Trump cabinet as a worker secretary. To the extent that “Epstein de was something, it was a fringed breast in the most ridiculous corners of the online conspiracy network.

Brown is the most rarely over: so embarrassing reporting A Trump Cabinet forced the minister to resign. PUBLISHED high -profile separation From at least one billionaire marriage – Bill and Melinda Gates. Once over Masters of the financial universe It was forced when irregular connections appeared. Epstein was arrested and accused and would die in prison (increasingly mysterious situations). Ghislaine Maxwell, a criminal partner in trade, was imprisoned.

Most importantly, the story gave a voice to the victims, and about 80 women-one of the 80 women who said they were harassed as young people-have grew up from low-income or unstable houses. They also talked to Europe, Ecuador and Smuggling Girls who were smuggled from Brazil. Fox News is reporting more 1,000 women and girls may be included.

Nevertheless, such deep dive reports, which give sound to victims, have a weakness: a news media model under sources, influence and legal influence, and gradually stressing.

. Miami Herald – One of America’s most important mastheads – much weaker than when it breaks the Epstein story. McClatchy, the home company, was purchased by Chatham Asset Management in 2020, a Hedge Fund, Chatham Asset Management. Most of the USA is now in the lower line -oriented hedge fund chains and Miami Herald Newsroom encountered repetitions again.

The Trump also made the environment difficult. Inside report Kara Swisher and Brown this week, Brown said Trump’s running interpretation (and suggesting that he could forgive Maxwell).

Meanwhile, Brown and other reporters are turning to another resource hungry innovation: follow the money. Epstein It has already appeared In the major financial data dumps that are mediating through the consortium of international researchers.

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