Posted on 04/05/2015 12:54:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Her tweet from late November reads likes it's in suspended animation, written in the calm before the storm.
"The Washington Post wrote an article about me, and how my UVA article came to be," she tweeted, adding a link to the profile.
Over the next several days, Sabrina Rubin Erdely would be thrust into professional turmoil as her story for Rolling Stone about a bombshell rape allegation at a fraternity house quickly fell apart.
Erdely, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, has been silent since the magazine apologized in December for significant failures in her reporting.
But Brian Stelter, citing sources with direct knowledge, reported on CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday morning that Erdely is expected to release an apologetic statement in conjunction with an independent review of the article by Columbia University's graduate school of journalism.
The extent to which Erdely participated in Columbia's audit is unclear. Erdely hasn't responded to interview requests (including one for this story), and her Twitter feed has gone dormant.
Her 9,000-word story, titled "A Rape on Campus," centered around claims from a woman identified only as Jackie who alleged that she was the victim of a horrific sexual assault at the Phi Kappa Psi house at the University of Virginia. The explosive claims reverberated around the country and on the Charlottesville, Virginia campus, where the university's president suspended all fraternity activities.
But it didn't take long for some people to question the story. Erdely herself contributed to those doubts.
Related: How Rolling Stone's UVA rape story unraveled
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Live on NBC...with CO Apologist..Brian WIlliams!
She and the magazine needs to be sued into oblivion.
Like CNN hasn’t done the same thing.
Well, this should start a “conversation”... about false rape allegations!
and CBS, and most other outlets who care more about their agenda than the news or facts or truth.
I can’t imagine the fraternity cited doesn’t have a fair number of attorney alumni who’d be happy to take this one on. Hope so.
But, as far as I’ve heard, just like Duke, the tarnished reputation remains, the college administrators/faculty jump on the band wagon, but never come face to face with the fact that they were punked and a determined effort was made to destroy reputations of the schools’ students.
If I cripple somebody by mowing him down with my car, an apology is great, but there will need to be some kind of compensation before things are set to rights.
Good lawyers too. It’s time for these people that make up these false stories that ruin people’s reputations to be sued into oblivion everytime.
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