Dua Lipa spoke out about how the media has handled the Jeffrey Epstein case, saying that it has short-changed the victims and hidden how bad the abuse was.
On the Service95 book club podcast with Roxane Gay, Lipa said that the way the media reports on crimes downplays their severity and shifts readers’ attention away from the victims.
“The way the crimes have been reported, and the language used, has been doing a disservice to all the victims.”
Many articles about the case describe “underage girls and the sex parties,” instead of stating that the victims are “children who were trafficked and raped.”
“I keep thinking about all the stories that talk about the underage girls and the sex parties, rather than writing about the victims who are children and who were trafficked and raped.”
Lipa said that this approach makes the reader feel distant from the severity of the crimes.
“It’s almost putting everything under some kind of veil to protect… I don’t know who, the reader? Or trying to mask what is happening.”
The singer also spoke out about how the media portrays events to the public.
“It’s so interesting how the media, kind of, takes and twists things even, you know, in the darkest hour.”
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