Scrutiny and Empathy

We just published this piece by Kirsten Schofield who recounts how she herself was the victim of an attempted rape at UVA and cannot forgive or accept the apology of Sabrina Erdely, the reporter on the now-notorious Rolling Stone story. You should simply read the piece rather rely on my gloss. But there is one thing that stood out to me in this piece: Schofield’s description of the very different responsibilities—radical empathy and belief and scrutiny and distance of rape crisis counselors and advocates on the one hand, and journalists (and though she doesn’t mention it explicitly, investigators) on the other. Here is the piece.