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McMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic

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The Problem With Journalism

In Canada, at least, and maybe this is the case in the United States, there is a strong symbiotic relationship between university administrators and especially local media. When it was still thought that all these allegations were real,. So I want to detail those reported there she's no longer there anymore. She did a 5,400 word story detailing in every salacious credulous molecular level detail of the accusation. But then Scott water was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in 2022. In open court. On top of that university investigator determined that none of the sex ring stuff was true. And guess what, the Hamilton spectator lost interest in the story real quick. The question is how can we assist how can journalism

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