Posted on 07/03/2016 5:51:06 AM PDT by detective
Rolling Stone journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely spent five months investigating a shocking claim of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, and the 9,000-word account of the brutal attack published online on Nov. 19, 2014, sent a tremor through the Charlottesville campus and beyond.
Then, on Dec. 5, at 1:54 a.m., Erdely sent an e-mail to the magazine’s top-tier editors, Will Dana and Sean Woods, with a simple subject line: “Our worst nightmare.”
The body of the message detailed how Erdely no longer trusted the primary source for the most striking anecdote in her article: a U-Va. junior named “Jackie,” who told Rolling Stone that she had been raped by seven men, while two others watched, during a date function at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in 2012. She wrote that as questions arose about the tale, she tried to have Jackie help her verify the identity of her assailant, and “it spiraled into confusion.”
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The WP is forced to admit the reporting was untrue but it tries to make it seem it was an honest mistake. There is no mention of the political agenda to demonize men on campus as rapists. There is no mention of the accuser's many obvious lies that any honest person should have been aware of after 10 minutes of research.
This is very similar to the MSM reporting of the Dan Rather Bush National Guard story and the many other obvious and politically driven lies by the MSM.
Just part of the crusade against young men...
Our elites are never wrong, are they, even when they get caught?
Why did you add young?
Pray America wakes
Paging Crystal Mangum and Mike Nifong.....
I think she has some kind of fetish
The writer also refuses to note that his own newspaper, the Washington Post was 100% supportive of the false story until it became obvious to everyone it was a lie and Rolling Stone retracted it..
She obviously didn’t learn about Dan Rather in journalism school. This is not “Our worst nightmare”. It’s simply “fake but accurate” news.
In other words, the "journalist" is blameless, since she was the victim of a carefully formulated deceit, not just another man-hating skank who ginned up a weak rumor into an indictment against an entire sex. Supported, of course, by her equally squishy gersh "editors," who never met a rape scandal they didn't like.
This is damage control writ large. If Rolling Stoned's staff can present themselves as noble truth-seekers who were innocent dupes, it lessens the severity of the libel accusations against them. And they can count on their comrades-in-arms at the Post to circle the wagons and defend them.
Exactly what popped in to my head when I read this.
But no, she has a need to be a crusading "journalist" changing the world, multiple lies at a time.
Or maybe her fiction got rejected by Penthouse Letters(?) and Larry Flint's august publications?
Her reporting eventually led her to settle on U-Va. after she learned that the school had not expelled any students for sexual assault in a number of years. In July, she interviewed Emily Renda, a sexual assault survivor and 2014 U-Va. graduate who joined the faculty to work on programs to prevent gender-based violence. Renda eventually introduced Erdely to Jackie, who willingly described her allegations of the gang rape at Phi Kappa Psi.
This reporter wasn't following up on a local story. She started by shopping around for a college that, by her rather arbitrary and in fact counter-intuitive standard, needed a little street justice. Once in the door, she worked her way through whatever levels of rape stories exist in that world, and latched on to the "best" local urban legend presented to her. The fraternity soon became an inevitable target.
Another case of verifying information after releasing the attack. So typical of “journalists” these days. I hope Rolling Stone is put out of business where they belong.
“Obviously, we regret any factual errors in any story,” the statement read. “But Rolling Stone believes the essential point of Jackie’s narrative is, in fact, true: a young woman suffered a horrific crime at a party, and a prestigious university reacted with indifference to her claim. This happens too often at college campuses all over America. Any mistakes we made were honest ones, trying hard to create a narrative and an investigation that would improve the prevention, investigation and prosecution of sexual violence. For that we would never apologize.”
Young WHITE men.
The modern version of what passes as “journalism” gives more weight to the seriousness of the allegations than it does to the proof such things actually happened.
Where was everybody for the Stanford swimmer?
“Young WHITE men.”
I stopped reading the Rolling Stone story a few paragraphs in, where Sabrina Erdely refers to the UVA campus’ “overwhelmingly blonde” student population.
That preposterous assertion immediately failed the fact-check test. Based on what? Did Erdeley or RS fact checkers verify thru UVA’s Registrar that a majority of the students are, in fact, blonde?
It was a subtle attempt to paint college educated white kids as “Aryan” i.e. Nazis. No need to read any further.
Rape = white privilege.
Frat boys = rich white boys = rapists.
Ok.
Narrative 101 appears to be the first course any of the so-called journalists on the left take.
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