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To: Don Corleone
"From the Dan Rather school of pseudo journalism...”Fake but accurate”?"

There's been a lot of that "fake, but accurate" sentiment this week. Do you think that would be the rallying cry if Fox News had been the one to come out with this bogus story? Then the emphasis would all be on Fox News's incompetence and unprofessionalism. But Rolling Stone's image has hardly taken a hit.
21 posted on 12/07/2014 1:52:34 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle
How about this exchange, with a Breitbart reporter attempting to determine if an accusation made against a "campus conservative" in Lena Dunham's apparently fictional autobiography is correct:


"What you're looking for," Ms. Hess informed me, "could create a conflict of interest on campus regarding sexual assault."
"I'm not sure what you mean."
"People here are less interested in justice for this kind of crime and more interested in helping the victim. I'm not psyched to help you do this."
"You can look at everything I've thus far written about this. We just want to know the truth."
"Asking whether or not a victim is telling the truth is irrelevant," Ms. Hess proclaimed. "It's just not important if they are telling the truth. If this person had wanted criminal justice they would have pursued it."

"I'm not just talking about criminal justice," I responded. "The details in the book point to a specific individual."
"Who graduated years ago."
"This man is easily found using Google and says he's innocent. Right now everyone is looking at him and he's just twisting out there."
"Our archives are private. We have no obligation to share them with anyone. I don't want our organization to be a part of this. I'm the general manager and the answer is no."

From http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/12/03/investigation-lena-dunhams-republican-rapist-story-falls-apart-under-scrutiny

Dunham herself attempted to suppress any investigation of her claims elsewhere in her book, threatening TruthRevolt with a lawsuit for covering her self-admitted child molestation of her own sister. Here: http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/lena-dunham-describes-sexually-abusing-her-toddler-sister.

40 posted on 12/07/2014 2:56:12 PM PST by FredZarguna (And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!')
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