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UVA Newspaper Editor: 'To Let Fact Checking Define Narrative Huge Mistake'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/06/2014 7:45:58 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Liberals aren't going to let mere facts get in the way of a good story.

A Politico magazine article on the UVA rape accusation debacle, in which the accuser's allegations have unraveled, quotes a student newspaper editor thusly: "to let fact checking define the narrative would be a huge mistake."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: alicewonderland; facts; jackie; liberalmedia; politico; rollingstone; universityvirginia; uofvirginia; uva; virginia; yellowjournalism
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1 posted on 12/06/2014 7:45:58 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Facts? We don’t need no steenkin’ facts. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 12/06/2014 7:47:01 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bucking for the Dan Rather Truthiness in Journalism Award.


3 posted on 12/06/2014 7:47:06 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

No it rang true to you because you are a bigot and you fear and hate white men with every fiber of your being.


4 posted on 12/06/2014 7:47:50 PM PST by The Toll
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Future Mediots of Amerika.


5 posted on 12/06/2014 7:48:13 PM PST by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Julia Horowitz hates white guys.


6 posted on 12/06/2014 7:49:42 PM PST by The Toll
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Rewind the tapes to, say, the Deep South in 1930, or so, shall we..?

“When we hear a wolf whistle at a lady, well, we just KNOW that’s a dirty n*gger doin’ that, and we know just WHAT to do, to clear that up...!”

Now how does THAT sound..?

I mean, that’s letting the narrative drive everything, right..?

We have come full circle, and this time it’s wrong, too.


7 posted on 12/06/2014 7:50:55 PM PST by gaijin
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The left love portraying all white men as rapists..once again this BS gets thrown right back in their face..gee, if only they fact checked “Jackie’s story like they fact checked Sarah Palin’s book..or sketches from SNL, they might have realized this chick was full of bull


8 posted on 12/06/2014 7:51:28 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
While Editor Ben Bradlee was not my favorite he did insist on a story having at least three confirmed sources before going with it. That in a nutshell is the problem with today's journalist's and editors. They are ready to print anything based on nothing but what someone tells them.

After reading of the completely incompetent job of reporting and the Editor doing his job so badly you have this kind of story.

All it would have taken is some good old fashion shoe leather and you would been able to sort the story out, but none of that was even done.

9 posted on 12/06/2014 7:52:14 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Because it fit what ‘they’ say we should believe!”

Kids!


10 posted on 12/06/2014 7:52:26 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"rang true"

Really? So every frat house at UVA routinely holds parties where invited girls are brutally raped, and nobody ever gets punished? While I don't doubt there's a lot of regretted sex going on at our institutions of higher learning, I doubt females are routinely raped and nobody gets punished. I think the rad-feminists are defining the narrative.

11 posted on 12/06/2014 7:52:29 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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12 posted on 12/06/2014 7:54:14 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: gaijin

Perfect comparison.


13 posted on 12/06/2014 8:01:11 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: MeshugeMikey

Jackie is currently sharing an apartment with Tawana Brawley and the Loch Ness Monster.


14 posted on 12/06/2014 8:01:23 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Hodie Christus Natus est!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This is the problem with Global Warming.

They want to believe it is true, because then it will mean so much more.

Idiots.


15 posted on 12/06/2014 8:02:04 PM PST by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Do these clowns actually believe the garbage they’re spewing or are they just muttering nonsense because they’ve been exposed? Since when is gathering facts when there is an accusation of a serious crime bad for “the narrative”? What the hell does that even mean?


16 posted on 12/06/2014 8:02:37 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Helpless women going to parties where there is drinking and drugs and men.

The poor things!!


17 posted on 12/06/2014 8:03:00 PM PST by VeniVidiVici ( Better a conservative teabagger than a liberal teabagee)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
“If we are being honest with ourselves, no matter if specifics of the article are true, …reading the article as a college student, you were thinking, ‘This could happen,’” said Rex Humphries, a second-year

It sure could happen. You could be falsely accused of rape and have your life ruined, "no matter if the specifics are true."

18 posted on 12/06/2014 8:04:27 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Prejudice

Prejudice is prejudgment, or forming an opinion before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case. The word is often used to refer to preconceived, usually unfavorable, judgments toward people or a person because of gender, political opinion, social class, age, disability, religion, sexuality, race / ethnicity, language, nationality or other personal characteristics.


19 posted on 12/06/2014 8:05:15 PM PST by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

I expect Jackie will be outed.


20 posted on 12/06/2014 8:05:23 PM PST by MUDDOG
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