Posted on 04/05/2015 5:01:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
Rolling Stone magazine retracted its article about a brutal gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity after the release of a report on Sunday that concluded the widely discredited article was the result of failures at every stage of the editing process.
The report, published by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and commissioned by Rolling Stone, said the magazine failed to engage in “basic, even routine journalistic practice” to verify details of the ordeal that the magazine’s source, identified only as Jackie, described to the article’s author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You are right about her infantile craving.
MSM: Hot topic
Rolling Stone: Catchy Headline Grabbing Story
Sabrina Erdeley: Immature writer screaming for approval and acceptance
Rolling Stone: Editorial research? Lacking there for a long time.
To allow the original allegations to permeate throughout the LoFo population; who will probably never hear of the retraction/apology. Therefore, the original lie will continue to be repeated in Democrat circles.
Sort of like the "Hands up, don't shoot" lie.
“Sue the bastards”
Oh, the injured parties will, I believe that those parties can win, and it’s going to take a heck of a gofundme page to keep the magazine afloat, because the subscriptions and advertizes alone won’t.
It has been the overarching pattern of the late 20th and early 21st century media in the United States in toto, and so this hardly serves as an excuse. One might excuse Charles Manson on the same basis.
Here is the NYT report of the “apology”:
On Sunday, Ms. Erdely, in her first extensive comments since the article was cast into doubt, apologized to Rolling Stone’s readers, her colleagues and “any victims of sexual assault who may feel fearful as a result of my article.”
Hmmm. Anybody missing from that apology? Aren’t people falsely accused of rape entitled to an apology?
If this is an accurate reporting of the extent of the apology, it could be evidence that the article was intentionally defamatory.
Bingo. KMA, RS.
The opening pages of the Rolling Stone article [9,000 words long: "A Rape on Campus"], which was published in November.
Statements from Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the author and Teresa A. Sullivan, the president of the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville.
13,000 words long: The Columbia report [commissioned by Rolling Stone] cataloged a series of errors at Rolling Stone...
It needs to be sued out of business by those people whose lives it has ruined.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.