I maintain that the reason we, as a society, permit the press to exist is because we realize it can do good.

Just because it failed to do so doesn’t mean I’ve made a mistake in saying it should.

You are now getting into the thing of criticizing a critique by saying it doesn’t include solutions. As Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out — a writer’s job is often simply to point out a problem and the solution is another article. Often one that wasn’t commissioned.

I got a kill fee for this article — if you want to pay me to write about how to solve James Deen, I can do that for you, you can contact my agent.