FSU’s president John Thrasher looks forward to his, uh, troubled school getting far more publicity than it already has: A film about it – The Hunting Ground – has made the shortlist for the best documentary feature Oscar.
FSU’s president John Thrasher looks forward to his, uh, troubled school getting far more publicity than it already has: A film about it – The Hunting Ground – has made the shortlist for the best documentary feature Oscar.
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Not so fast there. According to Ashe Schow in December 2d’s Washington Examiner the film is filled with distortions. She wrote:
“Those “distortions” include severely flawed statistics exaggerating the problem of campus sexual assault, misrepresented allegations from several of the film’s main accusers and almost no effort to tell the full story of campus sexual assault by seeking comment from the students and schools maligned. It wasn’t until after the film was sent for consideration at the Sundance Film Festival (and after the Rolling Stone’s gang-rape story was revealed as a hoax after the author failed to contact the accused students) that the filmmakers attempted to tell the other side of the story.
And once the criticism started flowing, the filmmakers conspired to edit Wikipedia to make the facts appear to agree with the narrative in the film”
Instapundit describes the nomination as Hollywood gearing up for Hillary’s campaign.
December 3rd, 2015 at 12:32PM
AYY: Good points. The film is deservedly controversial – here’s one of the more recent pieces of writing (with a response from the film’s director) about various questionable elements. And I think the controversy will continue to rage. I think especially with the Rolling Stone/UVa fiasco in the background, the film deserves very close scrutiny.
But so does rape on campus. I have no doubt this film has flaws and exaggerations – clarity about rape is difficult to attain, and certainly the filmmakers are motivated by indignation about rape on campus. We will see if the scrutiny this film receives does it in as a legitimate contribution to the public discussion of campus rape.