News articles these days are often designed to focus on one side of the story in order to appeal to an ideological target group that the niche news business specializes in targeting. This article is no different.
True. My response was the fact that you had, in large bold letters, declared it FAKE NEWS, only to go on and say it was, basically, questionable and one sided. That doesn't necessarily make it FAKE. Later on, if/when all the facts come out and the whole thing is debunked, then you can come out and call it FAKE NEWS.
No, that it is NOT what I wrote. I did not write that it was MERELY one-sided. Nice try, though. I wrote that the title was INCONSISTENT with the article because the title says "because X,"[1] but the article claims "because X and Y."[2] Therefore, it is FAKE NEWS.
* FULL STOP * It's therefore already proved to be fake news. (A)
Now in addition to being fake news for that reason, there is EVEN MORE to the story because the University says she is making false claims. And besides this as I point out because of another article she told how students claimed she was saying harassing things to them.[3]
Therefore, their complaints to the University would be about harassment such as that in total would include trans harassment, women harassment, political harassment, at a minimum. That's a logical inference (B). We do not know what else (C).
So to review for you, it's fake news because of a deliberately incomplete title lying by omission, and by inference it's also fake news because it doesn't tell the whole story even after including other things she said a second lie by omission, and PERHAPS there are other things but that part (C) does not make it certain to be fake news.
Reporting 90% what one side claims, though, also deserves criticism and ADDS to the wrongness of the article. A balanced article should interview both sides and give both stories. When it uses a flashy title lying by omission, it's also fake.
Here is an exercise for you:
Imagine this was the other way around, a news article entitled "Woman may get expelled for saying man raped her," but when you read the article you find out that she also said that "all men who sleep with a woman after a drunken party are rapists," and the article quotes and paraphrases her claims and side of the story for 10 paragraphs, leaving 1 paragraph to the university's no comment comment and never interviews the accused male or explains his side of the story.
Then you read a DIFFERENT article that says white male christian students on campus also complained that she said "white people are all demons" in the middle of class. Then, you find out that the university is obligated to take all complaints from students and so you would conclude that the original article was fake news.
So if you want to be principled you need to also concede the op article is fake news, too. Don't be inconsistent and unprincipled.
[1] The title of the article is "Abertay student faces expulsion in row over ‘women have vaginas’ comment."
[2] The content of the article states multiple plural comments were cause for issue: "women have vaginas and are not as physically strong as men."
[3] She claims that students complained she said women were the "weaker sex" and calling other students "man-hating feminists."
