Kobe's accuser

[Sloats]

Originally posted by The Brain
Actually, to put this on a serious note for a sec, I wanted to ask a question that Shepherd Smith put out there on FOX News (yes, I watch FOX News, so sue me):

Why is it in all of these high profile sexually-oriented cases, the media goes out of its way to protect the identity of the accuser, but splashes the accused's name all over the place long before guilt or innocence has been established?

I mean, this is why a person accused of any sexual crime cannot get a fair trial, simply because the public (of whom the jury is later comprised) will automatically assume guilt because nothing bad is known about the accuser.

Granted, now things are coming out about this girl having a drug overdose, or being emotional unstable following a break-up, but we don't <i>always</i> find these things out about the accuser, while the accused's life is placed under 24-hour scutiny.

Because in the 70's, women who oft accused men of rape were then "put on trial" and were accused of "asking for it". I believe that rape is the only crime where the media tries to protect the accuser.