Samhain
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I hope they sue the **** out of them.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The fraternity at the center of a now-discredited Rolling Stone rape article says the story was defamatory and reckless and they are pursuing legal action against the magazine.
Phi Kappa Psi said Monday in a statement that the article was viewed by millions, led to members being ostracized and there was vandalism of the fraternity house.
Hopefully this doesn't deter victims of rape from coming forward, and being believed.
Along those lines, what gets me is this: They were quick to latch onto the story, quick to write the story, quick to publish the story, but... dragged their feet in any sort of correction once the truth came to light.Unfortunately there is no way to avoid that.
Reading about the complete lack of journalistic integrity that went into this article is jaw dropping. That nobody has been fired over it is even more amazing. The author quoted people in her article that she never even spoke to.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/rolling-stone-retracts-article-on-rape-at-university-of-virginia.html?_r=0
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 piece was the result of failures at every stage of the 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.
Well, it appears Mr. Wenner has his dck in a wringer once again...and he's sounding like Obama in his "explanation"....
Oops, there Jan, other journalists know bull**** when they see it, and no amount of pretzel speak is going to change the fact you ****ed up. Big time.
Handing this off to "Jackie" the unnamed source as kind of her fault, but "we're not blaming Jackie" is the kind of thing you live off, destroying people who do that that is.
"Jackie" is one in a few thousand who come along with a "good story"...and reporters in their intern year learn a basic technique, you confirm at least the basic details; police reports, doctor reports, eye witnesses etc. And, Mr. Jenner in future if this one time managing editor may make a suggestion: if, as in 99.9% of all stories you cannot obtain some form of collaboration, it goes to the dead file.
I find it interesting that a society, like we have here in America, that glorifies sex and all it's deviations is shocked at the incidence at rape and other sexual assault.
Reap what you sow?
Is it possible that other cultures have the same things happen with the same frequency and that they just don't recognize/categorize it as rape?Actually, America has the most sexually repressive culture in the West, and simultaniously some of the highest rape rates in the West.
That is not in any way surprising. Rape rates rise as sexual repression rises in most cultures. Eventually, once you get to an extreme enough level of sexual repression, cultures just stop recognizing rape as being any different from sex at all.
Is it possible that other cultures have the same things happen with the same frequency and that they just don't recognize/categorize it as rape?
You may get your wish...piece of garbage yellow tripe liberal sesspool magazine..
I hope they get sued to the point of going out of business
Along those lines, what gets me is this: They were quick to latch onto the story, quick to write the story, quick to publish the story, but... dragged their feet in any sort of correction once the truth came to light.
In kind of a perverse way, I think they wanted it to be true. And not just because of the ding they suffered regarding their credibility.
Guess we can stop taking The Rolling Stones as a serious journalistic publication then.
The collateral damage from this disgraceful lack of journalistic ethics will go on for years. The anti-Greek people used this lie as a way to attempt to destroy the already vulnerable Greek system at colleges. UVA suffered unnecessary bad PR. It makes it less likely that women who are legitimately raped at college parties will come forward.
Rolling Stone was always a rag. This just confirms it.
I think the assumed it was true and rushed it because they wanted to be first.
When did we start? :shrug:
I only considered them serious for music, and even that was 30+ years ago.
ETA: Doh!!! "The Rolling Stones" :lol: (The 30+ years comment still stands, though)
Even a cursory investigation would have shown the facts of this particular case point to a false testimony. Rolling Stone is guilty of lazy reporting.
That should have nothing to do with future rape investigations where the victim was actually raped.
Actually, America has the most sexually repressive culture in the West, and simultaneously some of the highest rape rates in the West.
That is not in any way surprising. Rape rates rise as sexual repression rises in most cultures. Eventually, once you get to an extreme enough level of sexual repression, cultures just stop recognizing rape as being any different from sex at all.
Um... your link has nothing to do with what I said, dude. Which was about, ya know.. comparitive statistics. Not the US in a vacuum against itself. There are places outside the US, you know.
Actually, America has the most sexually repressive culture in the West, and simultaniously some of the highest rape rates in the West.
That is not in any way surprising. Rape rates rise as sexual repression rises in most cultures. Eventually, once you get to an extreme enough level of sexual repression, cultures just stop recognizing rape as being any different from sex at all.
You said. America = repressed = ever increasing rape rates.
What else I'm I suppose to derive from that?
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