In defence of Cathy Newman

A woman and a man had a conversation. Other people watched and listened. The woman asked the man some questions. The man answered them. Some people liked his answers. Some people didn’t. Some people liked the woman’s questions. Some people didn’t. So some of them called her a bitch and a whore and talked about her dying and said they knew where she lived. And some other stuff too that wasn’t quite as nice as that. 

Then the people the woman worked for got a bit worried, so they asked some other people to make sure the woman was safe, because, well, do I really have to explain why people take threats of violence against women seriously? Apparently I do, because you didn’t have to look very far on social media to find Cathy Newman accused of ‘playing the victim’.

This is often what happens when a woman on television asks a man questions that some people don’t like.