Is it unjust?

The Imus incident had become a culture explosion everyone had something to say about it. It was the "new" news. The media wrote about this story because it was creating friction on all the air waves. This does not make it right that the innocent Duke students did not spend their time on the front page. This is more the media focused on train wreckage and controversy. The Duke story was closed when we learned that they were wrongfully charged. The story to write about that is short and sweet. To analyze that case further is not productive. The University surely was hit hard by what the woman said occurred but it is not the responsiblity of the national media to be the PR representative for the school.
Imus comments are going to continue to float around the media for weeks because the more people say about the topic the the more interesting and complex it becomes. The firing of Don Imus is not going to be the end of his career but sadly the young man at Duke are no longer the icons they became when they were assumed to be guilty. These man are a going to have to hope that they disappear from the media because unlike Imus they are not going to be able to spend hours on the radio repairing there image.
I consider that the innocent young men from Duke are the losers in all this. Not that the coverage of the Imus story was over covered because it was what the people wanted to hear about. But we are going to continue to hear more about plane crashes then when the plane lands safely. The plane landing news, but a crashed plane and the controversy over what caused the crash will linger a long time.