'Newsroom' Writer Alena Smith Argued Against Campus Rape Plotline

"The Newsroom" has been criticized since its inception for its problematic sexual and gender politics. A new round of criticism began after Sunday night's episode, which featured a storyline centered around campus rape. In the episode, Don (Thomas Sadoski) tells a woman who has reported a sexual assault that he is "morally obligated" to believe her alleged attacker's claim of innocence until he is proven guilty. After sharing New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum's analysis of the episode, titled "'T...