In this clip you can see in real-time how this news announcer is about to say "alleged victim" but he cuts himself at "the alleg..." and just says "VICTIM here... was allegedly assaulted by..."
This is a perfect example of the type of spin the media willingly puts on crime reporting when males are accused of stuff by females.
Normally they would rehearse the shit out of it, and you KNOW they are being coached to talk about it in a certain way.
Seeing them "correct" themselves on live TV like this really sends it home though.
Basically the difference is that "alleged victim" is the CORRECT way to report this. We don't actually KNOW that she is a victim at all. She may well have NEVER been raped.
Switching from "alleged victim" to "victim" is basically asserting that she indeed WAS raped.
They fake neutrality by saying "allegedly assaulted" but if there was no assault, then what exactly is she a victim OF?
At the time this came out, they were reporting that 2 guilty verdicts were attained against this men, but it's still bad reporting to say remove "alleged" before victim IMO.
Plus they're not saying the assault was alleged at all: by saying "allegedly assaulted by", they are only saying the PERPETRATOR was alleged. As in they are sure an assault happened, but they don't know who did it.
If he is so sure about the details of the case, why say "allegedly assaulted in" at all? You're sure an assault happened because of the guilty verdict, but aren't sure who did it? WTF.
Same problem with James Alex Fields / Heather Heyer. They refer to Heyer as a "murder victim" but instead of "alleged murder victim" and only said Fields was the "alleged driver". As if they'd already determined it was a murder and not an accident, and only the murderer needs to be found.
We know Fields was the driver, the issue is whether or not it was accident or murder!
