OT - Nassar

[ELA]

Just looking at the Nassar coverage it's nuts how obviously biased all of even the mainstream media is.

CBS focuses more on the Olympic side, as does FOX, who is more and more in bed with MSU and the Big Ten.

While NBC, with their Olympic coverage starting next week, and ABC, and their ties to ESPN, has covered the MSU side more.

[ELA]

Just looking at the Nassar coverage it's nuts how obviously biased all of even the mainstream media is.

CBS focuses more on the Olympic side, as does FOX, who is more and more in bed with MSU and the Big Ten.

While NBC, with their Olympic coverage starting next week, and ABC, and their ties to ESPN, has covered the MSU side more.

And I'm not diving into political biases, nor am I interested in going there, there's another board for that, I just mean the other business interests of all of these media conglomerates.

[PSUinNC]

Heh, Nancy Grace et al were just relentless with the Duke Lacrosse case. Nonstop, for like six months. Then when it all turned out to be BS, they quietly moved onto the next hot button topic without so much as an apology.

Al Shapton, quite literally, stood on a podium in front of the Durham Co courthouse with his arm around the alleged 'victim' and destroyed those boys.  
He certainly never came back to apologize, even privately, after it was all over.  

[PSUinNC]

And I'm not diving into political biases, nor am I interested in going there, there's another board for that, I just mean the other business interests of all of these media conglomerates.

Said this a few pages ago, that the media is driving this narrative completely.  

[PSUinNC]

So, basically, the two situations are not analogous and Michigan State University is in the clear of being complicit with what Larry Nassar was doing?

Bumping this b/c I never got an answer from SuperMario.  

[medinabuckeye1]

I do not mean to say that the victims do not deserve it, given what happened to them, but WOW, that is a lot of coin.  

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/us/larry-nassar-michigan-state-settlement/index.html

[CatsbyAZ]

$$$ FIVE HUNDRED MILLION $$$



https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/16/us/larry-nassar-michigan-state-settlement/index.html

[ELA]

That's actually less than half of what was being speculated

[medinabuckeye1]

That's actually less than half of what was being speculated

Thanks for merging.  I didn't see this and couldn't find the old thread.  I guess I forgot it was titled "Nassar".  

[Hawkinole]

If equally divided, that would be over $1M per victim, and the average victim would clear at least $1M after attorney's fees. And, the attorneys didn't have to do much discovery, or try their case.
Michigan State really wants to put this behind them. But, liability is probably not limited to MSU. Reviewing the article it appears the victims preserved their right to pursue other defendants, rather than giving MSU the right to pursue contribution claims against other potential defendants, but then I am not sure a news writer would understand litigation and liability sufficiently to parse that out and write about it.

[medinabuckeye1]

If equally divided, that would be over $1M per victim, and the average victim would clear at least $1M after attorney's fees. And, the attorneys didn't have to do much discovery, or try their case.
Michigan State really wants to put this behind them. But, liability is probably not limited to MSU. Reviewing the article it appears the victims preserved their right to pursue other defendants, rather than giving MSU the right to pursue contribution claims against other potential defendants, but then I am not sure a news writer would understand litigation and liability sufficiently to parse that out and write about it.

I agree that the reporter likely wouldn't know enough to write about it, but what you are saying makes sense.  Even if there were other, collectible defendants that MSU could go after they likely wouldn't want the bad press of never-ending lawsuits against other defendants anyway so giving away that right in the settlement would have been a logical move for MSU.  
I think the fund for other potential victims was probably pushed for by MSU for the same reason, it insulates MSU from further litigation.  If a new victim steps forward tomorrow, instead of suing MSU they just make a claim to the fund.  That protects MSU from further bad press because a new victim suing MSU would lead to another headline naming MSU but a new victim making a claim to the fund probably results in no coverage at all.  

[ELA]

I thought I read somewhere that it also won't be equal, but the judge will determine the distribution.  I can't imagine how one would go about weighing the harm caused to each on a scale, over that many victims.

[OrangeAfroMan]

Heh, Nancy Grace et al were just relentless with the Duke Lacrosse case. Nonstop, for like six months. Then when it all turned out to be BS, they quietly moved onto the next hot button topic without so much as an apology.

They're definitely worse, but those types compare almost exactly with the sports talking heads making predictions that never get reviewed or checked back on.  They just go on forward, never looking back.
I guess that's an easy way to make sure you have plenty of "experts" to trot out there day after day, huh?  We're all experts if we're never held accountable.

[OrangeAfroMan]

I thought I read somewhere that it also won't be equal, but the judge will determine the distribution.  I can't imagine how one would go about weighing the harm caused to each on a scale, over that many victims.

Well you were only anally raped, and that's less horrific than multiple vaginal probings, so you get 83% of what she got......
no.