Like a Rolling Stone

NRO ^ | 7 Sep 2021 | Kevin Williamsonn

[Rummyfan]

Why the Media Keep Publishing Fiction

I once taught a whole college seminar on how Rolling Stone got took.

And now Rolling Stone has done it again. Maybe I’ll expand that seminar to a full semester — because the lessons of the journalistic crimes of Rolling Stone are applicable to much more than Rolling Stone.

The venerable pop-music magazine, which not long ago had to retract a splashy story about a vicious gang rape that never happened, has now been obliged to issue a correction — this should be a prelude to retraction — for a story about how gunshot victims wheeled into hospitals in rural Oklahoma are being left to bleed and groan in agony because the emergency rooms are overrun by cases of ivermectin poisoning. As with the infamous rape case, this is a culturally electric event that . . . did not actually happen: “Rolling Stone,” the correction reads, “has been unable to independently verify any such cases as of the time of this update.” There is a reason Rolling Stone has been unable to independently identify any such cases: There are no such cases.

More from the correction:

The National Poison Data System states there were 459 reported cases of ivermectin overdose in the United States in August. Oklahoma-specific ivermectin overdose figures are not available, but the count is unlikely to be a significant factor in hospital bed availability in a state that, per the CDC, currently has a 7-day average of 1,528 Covid-19 hospitalizations.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Maybe Rolling Stone should stick to covering the Rolling Stones and the music business, rather than pretending they are some legitimate serious news organization.

[Red Badger]

Maybe Rolling Stone should do some basic fact checking before printing garbage.................Like in the old days...........

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The first thing that pegs the BS meter is "gunshot victims in rural Oklahoma"—as if! A person is safer in rural Oklahoma than in any city populated by the "urban demographic".

No doubt, although rare, there are occasional gunshot victims in any rural area, but emergency rooms are not backed up with them, let alone ivermectin overdoses.

For the record, I take ivermectin regularly without any ill effects. But you have to take the correct dose. DUH! I'm pretty sure a Tylenol overdose will kill you, but not Ivermectin.

[.44 Special]

Like a Rolling Stone,
Like the FBI,
Like the CIA,
And the BBC
B.B. King
Doris Day...
...Dig it