Posted on 11/05/2016 3:42:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Days after Rolling Stone magazine published a shocking 9,000-word story about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia in November 2014, the magazine’s editors received an email just before 2 a.m. with “Our worst nightmare” in the subject line. They needed to run a retraction, the reporter said.
Instead, Rolling Stone kept the article on its website for four months before finally pulling it down that April and officially retracting the story.
That decision was enough to convince a federal jury in Charlottesville on Friday that the magazine defamed a university administrator, who claimed she was cast as the “chief villain” in the now-discredited story “A Rape on Campus.”
The 10-person jury found also found that journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely and the magazine’s publisher were responsible for libel, with actual malice. …
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Typical leftist agitation- complain constantly about problems but never even suggest solutions. All they do is destroy.
Same with the BLM- they have not offered even one idea for reforming the police system they constantly attack. Its all just political vandalism.
Rolling Stone magazine needs to die and its publishers become destitute.
I despise most media these days.
The way that Newsweek treated the falsely accused Duke kids was dreadful and something that made me turn the corner regarding my belief in the press.
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FOUR months! Oh, how I hope the penalty puts Rolling Stone out of business once and for all, leaves its publisher and the article’s author both broke and unemployable for the rest of their sorry lives ... and that it serves as a very clear message to all the media harlots that they are responsible for what they write and what they publish.
Lock Them Up.
Because the rapists tend to either black football players, or the sons of fat cats, both of whom are above the law. Prime example, Baylor; secondary example Vandy. Affluenza defendant at Stanford. Homosexual attacker at SMU. (Notice what the schools listed have in common?)
Libel. With malice. HA! HA!
If they kept that story on their website, KNOWING it was false, then it can only be construed as a malicious act.
When you say "mattress girl" are you saying she offered drive-up services?
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