Harvard’s Matthew Baum and Dara Cohen and ISR’s Yuri Zhukov analyzed news stories on rape published in 279 US newspapers, 2000 to 2013.They found that communities in which news coverage reflected rape culture – that is, coverage that seems to blame victims, empathize with perpetrators, imply victim consent, and question victims’ credibility – have both greater frequency of rape and less vigilance by the local criminal justice system in pursuing rape cases.