"The Washington press corps is like that big extended family with a terrible secret that cannot be confronted because everyone knows how bad it would be if the discussion ever got real."
Of course Facebook doesn't "edit" NewsFeed in the same way that a newspaper editor once edited the front page. It's a very different way. That's why we're asking about it!
The key decision Rolling Stone made was made at the beginning: to settle on a narrative — indifference to campus rape — and then go off in search of the story that would work just right for that narrative.
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