Posted on 07/29/2015 5:53:42 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
NEW YORK--Three University of Virginia graduates on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit in New York against Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher Wenner Media and a journalist over a now-debunked 2014 article describing a fraternity gang rape.
The three men, all 2013 graduates and members of Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity at the center of the story, claim the magazine was negligent in publishing an article entitled "A Rape on Campus" by Sabrina Rudin Erdely. They are seeking damages for defamation and infliction of emotional distress.
Rolling Stone apologized in December for "discrepancies" in the account, after the story sparked a national debate over sexual violence on college campuses.
A review by the Columbia University journalism school commissioned by Rolling Stone and released in April cited the magazine for reporting and editing lapses.
One of the graduates who filed the lawsuit, George Elias IV, said he lived in the room where the alleged crime took place.
"Upon release of the article, family, friends, acquaintances, coworkers and reporters easily matched Plaintiff as one of the alleged attackers and, among other things, interrogated him, humiliated him, and scolded him," the lawsuit says. . .
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The lawsuit follows a $7.85 million libel lawsuit filed in May against the same three parties by Nicole Eramo, UVA’s associate dean of students and top administrator in dealing with sexual assaults. Eramo in the lawsuit said she was defamed in the article, which falsely claimed she was indifferent to Jackie's allegations and tried to persuade her not to report the rape.
Hope they wind up owning the magazine.
Hope they wind up owning the magazine.
Maybe they’ll turn it back into a MUSIC publication, rather than the leftist tripe it has morphed into.
Yes! It is time to bring the full force of the law against yellow journalism.
They had to go political.
There’s no more “music” to talk about anymore that anyone gives a damn about
OMG I’m glad someone else noticed that.
I guess that’s why Tesla, Def Leppard, and Motley Crue are selling out concerts all over the country.
I would love to hear musicians attain popularity based on their musical abilities again, rather than their ability to sell jeans and Soda Pop.
I wonder if the Dr Hook guys still wants to get their picture on the cover?
Excellent!
When I read the article, the first thing I thought was, “This is accusing every member of that fraternity of being a gang rapist.”
The story essentially said that to pledge the fraternity, you had to participate in a violent gang rape.
I’d like to see Jan Werner end up having to make a living carrying fish heads to the dumpster.
Hunter Thompson and Ben Fong Torres were the only decent writers for the RS.
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