If a movie were to be made of the Duke lacrosse case, who would play whom? Kurt Anderson in a New York Magazine article says Tom Hanks would play K.C. Johnson, a blogger who has covered the lacrosse case like the dew. Anderson’s description of Johnson shows why the saintly Hanks should get the part:
Johnson has no connection to Duke. (His B.A. and Ph.D. are from the Harvard of the Northeast.) His attention was grabbed in April by the “deeply disturbing†public comments of Duke faculty that righteously indulged in invidious stereotypes and assumed the lacrosse players’ guilt. “One area that the academy, especially since McCarthyism, is supposed to stand up is cases where due process is denied,†he says.
Anderson, not always one who had much use for blogs and bloggers, adds:
I’ve nodded when people gush about the blogosphere as a valuable check on and supplement to the MSM—but I’ve never entirely bought it. Having waded deep into this Duke mess the last weeks, baffled by the Times’ pose of objectivity and indispensably guided by Johnson’s blog, I’m becoming a believer.
NC blogger Betsy Newmark, though, has another important casting question (scroll to bottom).
