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[Official] Rolling Stone Retracts Article on Rape at University of Virginia
New York Times ^ | APRIL 5, 2015 | RAVI SOMAIYA

Posted on 04/05/2015 5:33:34 PM PDT by Usagi_yo

"Rolling Stone’s fundamental mistake, Mr. Dana said, was in suspending any skepticism about Jackie’s account because of the sensitivity of the issue."
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“We didn’t think through all the implications of the decisions that we made while reporting the story, and we never sort of allowed for the fact that maybe the story we were being told was not true,”
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Reference; Society
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To: mcenedo

Like religious conservatives and the victims of the reverse discrimination of affirmative action, fraternities (unless they are black) have been completely marginalized by the Bolshevik Revolution of 2008. Those that can’t be “fundamentally transformed” (read: destroyed in their current form) will be attacked until they “ride in back”...


21 posted on 04/05/2015 7:58:04 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: mcenedo

If you look at her statement (link below) she sorta, kinda included the fraternity when she apologized “to the U.V.A. community.”

More striking was the lack of an apology from the UVA President to the fraternity. Her statement ran immediately below the writers apology.

Got the feeling a lot of lawyers are working overtime on this one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/statement-from-writer-of-rolling-stone-rape-article-sabrina-erdely.html


22 posted on 04/05/2015 8:03:30 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow)
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To: PGR88

Funny thing: that president was fired about 2 years ago by the “Board of Visitors.” Students and faculty went ballistic and she was hired back. Gotta wonder how many fraternity/sorority members participated in the rallies, etc. to get her back.


23 posted on 04/05/2015 8:12:40 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: PGR88
As I recall, the University President immediately suspended the frat in question, put all other frats under some kind of probation, and seemed to jump all over this fake story.

He does that.


24 posted on 04/05/2015 8:19:12 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Usagi_yo

“The report ... said the magazine failed to engage in “basic, even routine journalistic practice” to verify details of the ordeal ... described to the article’s author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely. Jann S. Wenner, the publisher of Rolling Stone ... said ... that Ms. Erdely would continue to write for the magazine”

Yeah, that’ll DEFINITELY enhance RS’s future credibility, you know, retaining a writer who failed to engage in “basic, even routine journalistic practice”. But, hey, maybe that’s pretty much the standard for RS “journalism” anyway, so there’s nothing unusual enough here to warranty firing the “journalist”.


25 posted on 04/05/2015 10:45:32 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: motor_racer

At this point....the university and the frats have a case to sue Rolling Stone in court. We aren’t talking a lousy couple of million...this could go into the fifty million range.

I’d say that Rolling Stone is now on marginal survival ground. Even admitting this in public....they’ve set the stage for dissolving the magazine. I’d give them between two and four years left. Figure court action, an appeal process, and then empty out the remaining funds that they have. Lousy way to go but they deserve it.


26 posted on 04/05/2015 10:47:52 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SoFloFreeper

The red diaper doper babies didn’t think that the seriousness of the charge of KGB infiltration into the State Department, media, academia, etc. was a valid excuse for the “excesses” of “McCarthyism”.


27 posted on 04/06/2015 1:02:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
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To: Da Coyote
The only diff between the Rolling Stone and the NYT is................. ............................ I’m thinking, I’m thinking.............

NYet Times doesn't put shirtless photos of Justin Beiber on the front page.

28 posted on 04/06/2015 1:02:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Clarence Thomas is being lynched anew as Antia Hill has a documentary out now and she’s visiting school children to speak out against that “horrible black man” on the Supreme Court.


29 posted on 04/06/2015 1:04:10 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
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To: Usagi_yo

The reporter should receive the same sentence that the rapist would have received.


30 posted on 04/06/2015 2:41:11 AM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
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To: Usagi_yo

Well come on man, if we didn’t have false accusations of rape on College campuses then how can we push feminism and stuff?


31 posted on 04/06/2015 3:30:35 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 15 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Usagi_yo

Like Ray Donovan said, “fine. now where do I go to get my reputation back?” Rolling Stone should be hit by a multi-million dollar lawsuit as well as the lying female dog who promoted the story in the first place


32 posted on 04/06/2015 3:36:55 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: CondorFlight
Yeah but Rolling Stone has about the same credibility as World Weekly news, probably less even as I never saw World Weekly news making both the Boston bomber and Al Gore out to be a rockstars. The only thing that rag is good for is to catch droppings in the bottom of a bird cage.


33 posted on 04/06/2015 4:19:18 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 15 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Libel suits are tough, but thankfully, Rolling Stones has provided enough evidence to support a libel claim. I think.


34 posted on 04/06/2015 5:01:12 AM PDT by Usagi_yo (The declining morals of the West vs the increasingly brutal Jihadists. Coincidence?)
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To: Usagi_yo

Add in the reporter and add in the lying slut who claimed rape in the first place. Bearing false witness is an actionable crime (and a mortal sin) and the bimbo needs to get hit hard with money damages.


35 posted on 04/06/2015 8:47:42 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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