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 ...
They can afford the pretense of being gracious now, having already ruined who knows how many innocent male students careers and reputations.
Don't get too cocky, New York Times!
The NYT is casting stones ..... better board up all those glass windows!!!
How long after the publication of the original story did it take for these poltroons to cough up an apology for perpetrating a massive hoax? Nearly a year? Why the hell did it take so long, anyway?
Remember the Duke lacrosse players? Who fixed their reputations?
MSM employees to devise ways to avoid.. getting caught.
Never fear, leftists will come out and say “Hey it doesn’t matter that this story was complete horse poop and that people’s lives were ruined because of it, rape happens everywhere therefore this BS story was justified”
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Fancy name, no credibility.
The New York Times acts as if this is something that happened to someone else.
Sabrina’s Home Page on her website says...
Award-winning
freelance magazine journalist
It should read instead...
Without Credibility
freelance magazine journalist
Her email doesn’t allow an email to be sent. It’s locked.
She also ruined reputations and lives in Philadelphia, Pa. with her 2011 story titled:
The Catholic Church’s Secret Sex-Crime Files:
Rolling Stones says no conflict of interest that Sabrina’s husband was District Attorney in Philadelphia at the time of her (now discredited) hit piece...
Unless she decides to to transition to pure (or unpure) fiction, she needs to start writing about discredited journalists instead of fictional sex abuse while calling it journalism...
“...leftists will come out and say “Hey it doesn’t matter that this story was complete horse poop and that people’s lives were ruined because of it, rape happens everywhere therefore this BS story was justified”
The LameStream Leftist Elite already said that.
Yep, just like with “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” all lies from the left are justified in their idiotic minds..all in the name of social justice
“Fifty Shades of (Little) White Lies”?
Elderly wrote an apology today, April 5, 2015...
“However, in the case of Jackie and her account of her traumatic rape, I did not go far enough to verify her story.”
Hey, Alexis, the same goes for your 2011 story...
Wikipedia writes about your hit piece on the Catholic Church titled: “The Catholic Church’s Secret Sex-Crime Files”
In the first iteration of the rape Billy Doe claimed to have endured, he was knocked unconscious, stripped, tied to a church altar with sashes, and then anally raped on the altar for five hours. Subsequent iterations of the rape recounted by Billy Doe became increasingly less dramatic; a final version omitted the five-hour altar anal rape. Instead, Billy Doe explained, he had been coerced into engaging in mutual masturbation. Cipriano also criticized Erdely for failing to include information on Billy Doe’s background that could have impugned his credibility; he had, for instance, been arrested six times, once while trafficking 56 bags of heroin.
I invite you and our readers to go to that website... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Erdely
Rolling Stone can apologize all it wants to but it will never admit that the real cause of this fiasco was not a poorly researched news article. The real cause is the left’s mania for parroting the partly line in a gross distortion of the idea of being a team player. The reporter was being PC and willing to uncritically ingest any narrative that would recertify her mindless allegiance to an interpretive framework that will destroy your mind.
The real victim is the reporter and her “other-directed” characterological makeup; a sad and infantile craving for approval, the tragedy of a person who needs to read the face of others in order to verify their own acceptibility.
They don’t care. They are just concerned it affects their image and bottom line.
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