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|accessdate=2008-07-13}}</ref> Seven years later, in the summer of 2008, the ''Washington Post'' ran a 13-part series billed, in part, as "a tale of the tabloid and mainstream press pack journalism that helped derail the investigation." Although the series was phenomenally popular, reader comments were overwhelmingly negative; ''Post'' Metro reporter Robert Pierre wrote that emphasis on a glamorous white murder victim, when "about 200 people are killed in this city every year, most of them black and male," was "absolutely absurd and dare I say, racist, at its core."<REF>{{cite news|title=A 13-Part Series to Love or Hate|first=Deborah|last=Howell|work=[[Washington Post]]|date=July 27, 2008|page=B06|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502758.html}}</ref><REF>{{cite news|title=''Post'' Reporter Hopes Protesters March on ''Post'' Building over Chandra Series|first=Erik|last=Wemple|authorlink=Erik Wemple|work=[[Washington City Paper]]|date=July 22, 2008|url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/07/22/post-reporter-hopes-protesters-march-on-post-building-over-chandra-series/}}</REF>
The media have also been criticized for their "rush to judgment" in suggesting, sometimes blatantly, that Condit was guilty of the murder, especially in the early days of the investigation.<ref>Mark Cohen, "[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/22/700629/-With-20-20-Hindsight,-Condit-Story-Was-Better-Than-Truth With 20/20 Hindsight, Condit Story Was Better Than Truth]". Daily Kos, Feb. 22, 2009.</ref><ref>Jeff Cohen, [http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x36478 Will TV News Ever Apologize for Condit Hoax?]; reprised in Democratic Underground.</ref><ref>Phil Perrier, [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/WAS+THERE+A+RUSH+TO+JUDGMENT%3F-a0149874106 Was There a Rush To Judgment?</ref> Some of the reporters camped in front of Condit's Washington apartment house were quoted as stating they would remain there "until he resigns."<ref> [http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/2001/10/01/respect-mahh-authori-tay/]</ref><ref>L. Brent Bozell, III, [http://www.mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2001/col20010822.asp Is This a Condit Country?] August 22, 2001.</ref>
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