The Guardian article (Peter Laban's link) wasn't all that good, and sometimes irrational. Raping a comtose girl lying in her own vomit is surely more to do with drink-fuelled lust that a "desire for power."

I have cringed at most of the Fox and CNN coverage, but that's to do with their generally tacky style, whereby news presenters positively wallow in what they report rather than make any attempt to be objective.

This particular news item, as others have noted, concerned the sentencing. And what I took from it was a clear warning that a crime as serious as rape can have serious consequences no matter who the perp(s) might be. I have no problem with that. Other broadcasts, of which there were many during the course of the trial, covered other aspects of the case.