Media Should Identify Rape Victims

Fox news never stops to amuse me, and their views section is sometimes outright delirious. For example, Burns in this piece of opinionated claptrap argues that media sources should reveal the names of rape victims so as to prevent unscrupulous women from making false allegations (the basic gist of his article).

He claims that the practice of keeping rape victims anonymous is a mere courtesy and goes on to compare rape with mugging and robbery. He talks about rape as a traumatic crime, but that's all. He does not even talk about the possible psychological and physical consequences of revealing the names of victims - death threats, etc. (especially if the allegation is made against someone like Bryant).

Although I agree with him that the media (and the judicial system) should do more to prevent false allegations of sexual assault, I am pretty outraged by his comparison of rape with robbery.