A reader points me to another excellent Chris Lawrence post on the Duke lacrosse case — this time he’s flagging a News and Observer public editor column from April 2 noting that the newspaper didn’t publish statements made by the accuser:

[N&O deputy managing editor Linda] Williams said editors and the reporter discussed the fairness issue at length before interviewing the woman and publishing the story. The governing decision, she said, was to print only information from the interview that conformed with the police reports. “We limited for publication the statements from the woman that were in line with what she said in the police report,” Williams said. Other information from the interview has not been published.

So what was withheld? Statements that contradict established facts? Or claims that aren’t supported by available evidence?