Friday, December 9, 2005

By Rick Cundiff
Star-Banner (Ocala, Fla.)
Published: 12/09/05

Excerpt:

Criminal cases involving allegations of sex between an adult and a minor are common in Marion County courts. Few draw such attention. What makes the Lafave case different?

Gender, for one thing. Lafave's alleged victim of sexual assault was a 14-year-old boy.

That makes a difference in the coverage, said Bob Steele, the Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values at St. Petersburg's Poynter Institute. The nonprofit institute, which owns the St. Petersburg Times, trains journalists.

"If all the details were the same ... I doubt that we would generally see the same thing if the gender roles were reversed," Steele said.
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