“Which isn't to say that Thurman should have been forced to detail what happened — if she was able to in the first place,” Peterson writes. “This is a place when the journalist and her editors make a call: what does this narrative do? Does the inability to report it with accuracy actually call the subject's authority — on her own experience — into question? Does it transform a piece that's intended to allow a victim of sexual harassment and abuse to tell her story into one that invites readers to doubt her?”