UVA and the alleged frat rape - Rolling Stone backpedals

Stop getting hung up on whether they got one in five things right or one in 100. There's no real difference.

 

Nice blueprint for squeezing some more work out of Rolling Stone, though, if one ever freelances a piece for them.

I guess it's not impossible that she's doing this on her own, either.

 

I hope they're not paying her very much for this additional work.

 

Put her on the list with Janet Cooke, Jason Blair and Stephen Glass

 

Off the top of my head, I can think of two schools with high-profile rape allegations in the past year. I'm sure there are others. So if you're RS shopping around schools to use as a "sexy" rape setting and not caring much about accuracy, I'm somewhat surprised they didn't latch onto one of the schools already in the news for this issue.

 

^^^You can have your pick of the 50 or so schools who allegedly mishandled sexual assault complaints now under investigation by the Justice Department.

 

Rolling Stone has asked the Columbia J-School to independently review how the story came to be and will publish their report.

http://jimromenesko.com/2014/12/22/...ew-its-a-rape-on-campus-editorial-process/rs/

That will be something, I suspect.

 

Let's not forget that a Columbia prof already aligned herself with Team JayFarrar and told the NYT that Rolling Stone's mistakes were no thang.

 

Go Team Jay.

I'm at the point, given everything that's come out, is the Rolling Stone writer fabricated most everything in the story. The only question, to me, is how much. My best guess is that it is in 90s and not a complete fabrication but she faked notes, transcripts and maybe coached people on how to beat the fact checkers.

A thorough investigation of her work will show that this wasn't the first time she's faked stuff either. She'll end up working for some advocacy group and won't write professionally again.

 

Pity the same can't be said for the dirtbag editors and that rancid rag, Rolling Stone.

 

Not sure what the lead time is for Doonesbury's Sunday comic, but this one looks to be outdated:

 

"Rape culture" enablers among the pocket-protector set:

http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/the-biggest-math-story-of-year.html