‘Manchester’ director defends Casey Affleck, rips student journalist
The Oscar-winning screenwriter for “Manchester by the Sea” has written a scathing critique of a college journalist over an opinion piece about sexual harassment allegations leveled against actor Casey Affleck.
In a letter to the editor of The Wesleyan Argus, Kenneth Lonergan, a former Wesleyan student, refers to the piece as a “tangle of illogic, misinformation, and flat-out slander.” He also defends Affleck.
Last week, in a piece titled “How Wesleyan is Complicit in Affleck’s Sexual Misconduct by Endorsing Lonergan ‘84’, ” Connor Aberle, the assistant opinion editor for the student paper, wrote that Affleck’s best actor win was “severely problematic.”
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