A Times news article reports President Obama's establishment of an administration task force to combat sexual assault on college campuses:
at a ceremony in the East Room, Mr. Obama signed a memorandum creating the task force, surrounded by senior advisers on his White House Council on Women and Girls. On Wednesday, that council released a rundown of past and prospective administration actions titled "Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action." The issue is a priority of women's groups, which have been crucial to Mr. Obama's election victories.
Although episodes of sexual assaults in the military have received more attention recently, rape is most common on campuses, the report said. One in five students has been assaulted, it said, but just 12 percent of them report the violence.
Absent from the Times is any skepticism at all regarding this "one in five" statistic, skepticism of the sort that is available in this article from the Independent Women's Forum and this article by Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
None of this is to suggest that rape, on campus or anywhere else, is anything less than a terrible crime, or that the government shouldn't work to prevent it, reduce it, and punish it, just that there's a newsworthy controversy about that statistic that the Times would have done better to cover than to ignore.