The tragedy of the Duke Lacrosse scandal illustrates that even those members of our society who consider themselves enlightened can turn quite narrow-minded and mean-spirited with very little prodding. Rushing to judgment is no more palpable when done by feminist rights groups, large media executives, politically inspired district attorneys and university elites than by any hidebound organization. The Duke scandal clearly indicates that many of our major news outlets, whose sole purpose is to report the news, fact-find, and get to the truth, lack either the will or the means to do so. University faculty are so paralyzed by witch-hunt's, political correctness and the fear of false accusations that they too fail to do what is right, only what is expedient. And feminist rights groups once again show a willingness to trample on the rights of every other group in our society in their blind drive for "equality". Apparently few people in our society, including many of those who should know better, are prepared to fully embrace the notion that we are innocent until proven guilty. However it should be pointed out that some media outlets, particularly conservative cable and radio media outlets less prone to kowtowing to political correctness, from the outset reported this story with the skepticism that should accompany any accusation unsupported by the facts. The National Organization of Women still maintains on it's web site the notion that the media maintained a "dismissal of a feminist viewpoint in the case". The organization holds up for particular scrutiny those media outlets that turned out, in the end, to have the story right. Bizarre? Of course. The Duke Lacrosse case will do no more to promote feminism than did the Tawana Brawley rape case. But sole-purpose organizations will maintain radical views, which is why they should be summarily ignored in the search for truth and justice. Sadly, this time they weren't.