Petition Signing – Demand CNN Apologize For Their “Disgusting” Steubenville Rape Coverage

To live in an era when a rape report is televised publicly in a First World country as a victimless crime is loathsome, and these so-called professional reporters and the station should be held directly accountable for their brazen indiscretion. Hopefully they feel some degree of emotional accountability for the words they spoke, but more so for the words they didn’t. Implicit or not, this coverage expressed to the world that CNN indirectly (tacitly) promotes the continual normalization of rape culture.

I can’t believe a petition has to be signed before any action is taken. Isn’t the issue obvious enough? People are being hurt by keeping the real issue silent. How many more women are going to be sexually objectified to the point where suicide is considered an appealing means of release from the hurt, before prevalent ideals about rape are properly vindicated by the media and taken to heart by society? Please sign the petition by clicking the image link below:

And then we have internet hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ who claim not to approve of “vigilante justice” but are taking matters in to their own hands anyway. They also claim to have confirmed the identities of two of the four alleged rapists to the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Canada teen who hanged herself after reportedly never emotionally recovering from an alleged rape by four teenage boys:

Rehtaeh’s mother said one boy took a photo of the alleged rape in 2011 and her daughter was subjected to bullying after it went viral. After a year-long investigation, police concluded there were no grounds to charge the four boys because of insufficient evidence. To truly enforce positive change, I personally agree with the signing of petitions.