In my world actual rape victims would be outraged with her, and not with people asking that she face some consequences. The people that would be doing the on line complaining about that would be the same people that made a scientist cry recently for wearing the wrong shirt. I’m not holding my breath however as far as her facing consequences go.
That hasn’t yet been confirmed so let’s be careful.
Besides if “Jackie” really was her real name, not a pseudonym than the reporter Eberly was even more incompetent than I could possibly have imagined.
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She was aware that the story was going to be published by a national magazine and did nothing to stop it.
Anyone who suffered injury (mental anguish?) because of this woman’s malicious, and knowingly false accusations could file suit. The fraternity, the individual members of the fraternity, the college, and the fellow who was unfortunate enough to attend the same high school as her could have grounds to sue.
But we can still Pit the rape culture, right?
Can we blame blacks for the crime and violence culture?
May we blame Muslims for the terrorist culture?
So no one else had the reaction of “strict new rules” along the lines of:
“the fox guarding the chicken house”
I, for one, am confident that this will do absolutely nothing to reduce the number of incidents in which women are raped on top of a pile of broken glass as part of an initiation ritual.
You’d think after these revelations they’d slink away with their head down. No, they’re doubling down on stupid. They now want secret rape trials & mandatory women studies
Because, you know, secret sex trials have such a proud and accomplished history in the collegiate world.
The Columbia Journalism school was asked to do a post mortem and it was pretty damning to all involved. The article was officially retracted. This was all released on Easter Sunday evening, which is a pretty huge cop out to try to bury it.
Also, somehow absolutely no one, including the author who was found to be at strong fault, was fired.
It was a main story on the TODAY show this morning.
Still, the retraction was clearly timed to try to bury it as much as possible. I mean, why else would they release it on freakin’ Easter Sunday?
i heard it on the radio.
wait and see if nightly national news has it. i think so, it was massively bad journalism.
I’m less interested in that aspect as I am that absolutely no one is fired. The author will even continue to write for Rolling Stone.
The frat is suing their asses, as they should. That will keep the flow of attention going.
I wouldn’t have fired anyone. Journalists should get fired for intentionally fabricating stories, not for what happened here.
Should they also not be fired for performing poorly at their jobs? A couple phone calls would have discredited Jackie’s story, but they were never made. A competent journalist would have made them.
They heard what they wanted to hear. It reinforced pre conceived ideas, and they didn’t let pesky research or fact finding get in their way.
I would not allow that kind of blindness to continue, they could quit or be fired.
“So no one gets fired and no policies change? No wonder so few trust us anymore,” former NBC News investigative correspondent Lisa Myers wrote on Twitter Sunday night.
That sums up my opinion of the whole Rolling Stone debacle. Why should anyone trust what the Rolling Stone has to say in the future? It’s obvious that they won’t hold themselves responsible for this complete fuckup. The Rolling Stone is no more responsible than an internet blog.