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In the past couple of weeks, two of Jian Ghomeshi’s former accusers have been interviewed by what’s now called the mainstream media.

In one instance, Lucy DeCoutere was quoted as part of a Toronto Star story on how the landscape has and hasn’t changed since the Ghomeshi trial.

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The piece was published on the one-year anniversary of Ghomeshi’s acquittal on three counts of sexual assault and one of choking in connection with three women.

DeCoutere’s remarks are what they are.

In essence, she said that the cost of coming forward to testify in court was “too expensive for no payback,” but applauded women who do report and testify.

What I found astonishing was not that she was in the current vernacular “speaking out” — dear God, she has rarely stopped — but that in the seven paragraphs in which she was quoted and described, nowhere did the reporter allude to the fact that she’d been wholly discredited in the courtroom.