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Context & A Controversial Newspaper

By K.C. Johnson

The Detroit News blared the following headline: ?Controversial ex-Duke lacrosse player owes IRS $6.5M; lawyer calls it mistake.? The lede: ?Nearly four years after receiving an undisclosed settlement from Duke University, Reade Seligmann, one of three lacrosse players exonerated in a racially charged rape case, owes the IRS almost $6.5 million in taxes, according to public records.?The story, originally posted on the News? ?Tax Watchdog? blog by Robert Snell, has a few problems. The first, of course, is its headline. There are a lot of adjectives or adverb-adjective combinations that come to mind in describing Reade Seligmann. ?Falsely accused? is the obvious selection. ?Widely praised? is another. But ?controversial? seems like a highly unusual choice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).