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Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 05, 2014 10:19PM

(CNN) - Rolling Stone magazine apologized to readers Friday for a story it published chronicling one woman's account of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house and the school's failure to respond to that alleged assault.

The magazine editors made the choice not to contact the man who allegedly "orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her," a decision Rolling Stone says it now regrets.

"In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in (the woman's) account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced," Rolling Stone said.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 05, 2014 10:42PM

CRIME & COURTS
Rape story unravels: Rolling Stone says trust in UVA source 'misplaced'

Published December 05, 2014
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The dramatic Rolling Stone story of a gang rape at University of Virginia, which prompted national outrage until scrutiny of the alleged victim's account began to raise serious doubts, was based on "misplaced" trust in the still-unidentified woman, the magazine said Friday.

The 9,000-word story, titled "A Rape on Campus," detailed a young freshman's horrific account of being gang raped on a floor strewn with broken glass after being dragged into a darkened room at a fraternity party in 2012. The author, freelance writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely, identified the victim only as "Jackie," and did not interview the alleged attackers. But the story blasted the Charlottesville school, saying university officials turned a deaf ear to Jackie's complaints in the latest example of its long history of indifference to alleged sexual assaults.

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In recent days, Fox News' Howard Kurtz, the left-leaning Slate magazine, The Washington Post and other outlets had begun to question certain aspects of the account, noting, among other discrepancies, that no party took place in the location described in the time frame Erdely's story cited. The magazine initially stood by the story, published in the Nov. 19 edition, but on Friday reversed course.

"... we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced."
- Will Dana, Rolling Stone
"In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced," Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana said in a statement. "We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story."

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In the wake of the story, university president Teresa Sullivan promised a full investigation and an examination of the way the school responds to sexual assault allegations.

“The wrongs described in Rolling Stone are appalling and have caused all of us to reexamine our responsibility to this community,” Sullivan said at the time. “We are committed - above all else - to accountability with regard to these serious matters.”

The case was reminiscent of the 2006 Duke lacrosse case, in which wealthy white fraternity members at an elite southern school were accused of being sexual predators. But unlike the Duke case, no suspects were named and no victim came forward, other than to Erdely, who has refused to fully identify Jackie.

In addition to a growing drumbeat of media skepticism, based partly on Erdely's departure from journalistic standards that critics said required her to attempt to talk the accused rapists, several of the women identified as Jackie’s close friends and campus sex assault awareness advocates cast doubts on the report.

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The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at University of Virginia did nnot host a party on the night of the alleged attack, according to fraternity officials. (AP)
The magazine said Erdely and fact-checkers spent months working on the story and found Jackie to be credible. Erdely said she did not pursue or name the suspects at the behest of Jackie, who said she feared retribution from them.

"She asked me not to name the individuals because she’s so fearful of them," Erdely told The Washington Post. "That was something we agreed on.”

Erdely would not say whether she knew who the alleged attackers were.

Capt. Gary Pleasants of the Charlottesville police department said that detectives are looking into the allegations at the request of the university but declined to comment on the status of that investigation.

The University of Virginia fraternity named in the story, Phi Kappa Psi, released a statement Friday afternoon saying the organization did not host a party on Sept. 28, 2012, the night the attack allegedly occurred. Fraternity officials also said that no members of the fraternity worked at the university’s Aquatic Fitness Center at the time, as Jackie claimed, and that no room in the fraternity house matches Jackie's description.

"It is our hope that this information will encourage people who may know anything relevant to this case to contact the Charlottesville Police Department as soon as possible," the statement read. "In the meantime, we will continue to assist investigators in whatever way we can."

The Washington Post has interviewed Jackie, now a 20-year-old junior at the school, and others involved in the case in recent days and tried to verify the story. The paper reported that Jackie’s close friends said they believe something traumatic happened to Jackie but have come to doubt her account because her story has changed and key points cannot be verified.

Mollie Hemingway, a media critic and senior editor at The Federalist, said she followed the story closely, from her "emotional" reading of the Rolling Stone story to the questions that soon followed. She said she prides herself on reading critically, but acknowledged buying in to Erdely's story until only recently.

"This has been an absolutely devastating blow to Rolling Stone's credibility," she said. "[Erdely] has a lot to answer for as well. She literally took the memories of one person who claimed to have been traumatized and built an entire story around it.

"But the worst things is that people who are victims of rape will not be believed," Hemingway said. "That is the worst part of this story. I don't think the writer or this magazine could have done more damage to victims of rape if they had set out to."

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 05, 2014 10:44PM

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 05, 2014 10:46PM

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: imbiker ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:07PM

Kind of like Duke LAX "scandle"? If it was possible, then its probably true--the left's brain says so!

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:11PM

imbiker Wrote:
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> Kind of like Duke LAX "scandle"? If it was
> possible, then its probably true--the left's brain
> says so!


The Duke incident involved a sports team while the UVA incident involved a fraternity. Duke is in tobacco row while UVA is in Virginia wine country. There are no similarities to draw comparisons upon.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Libby Tardz ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:15PM

But it felt so real.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Jizzabel ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:19PM

You're victim blaming. Even if this rape did not occur other rapes have occurred so we shall discuss those.

Rape Culture!!!!!

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:21PM

Jizzabel Wrote:
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> You're victim blaming. Even if this rape did not
> occur other rapes have occurred so we shall
> discuss those.
>
> Rape Culture!!!!!


If you want to talk about journalism it's too late

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: LOL... ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:26PM

Rolling Stone apologizes for such errors. FOX News solicits them.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:28PM

Jizzabel Wrote:
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> You're victim blaming. Even if this rape did not
> occur other rapes have occurred so we shall
> discuss those.
>
> Rape Culture!!!!!


It is obviously still possible that this woman was raped by someone from the fraternity. The problem is a half-ass article in a magazine is just going to complicate things. You have to use names of suspects. You have give specific details about times and locations that can be fact checked.

It does the victim no good for her story to be partially told. If she wants the whole world to have her story she needs to be willing to give every bit of information she possibly can give. If she wants to keep certian things private (which is certainly understandable) then she shouldn't tell the whole world her story. It's a catch-22.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fact Checker II ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:39PM

Nearly everything published in leftwing mainstream media rags are blatant lies. The U.S. media has less credibility than that of the North Korean media.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Mother Jones ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:46PM

LOL... Wrote:
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> Rolling Stone apologizes for such errors. FOX
> News solicits them.


Rolling Stone continually does the same stupid shit.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Really? ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:57PM

So don't subscribe. But turn off FOX News first.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Really! ()
Date: December 05, 2014 11:59PM

Really? Wrote:
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> So don't subscribe. But turn off FOX News first.


What does Fox News have to do with Rolling Stone fucking up?

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: TIME TO PROTEST ()
Date: December 06, 2014 12:00AM

#FratLivesMatter

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Tweety ()
Date: December 06, 2014 12:03AM

#LibtardsAreFuckingIdiots

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: puddin lover ()
Date: December 06, 2014 01:51AM

Hmmm maybe Bill Cosby is innocent. Can't trust women anymore.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: WaPost ()
Date: December 06, 2014 08:05AM

Washington Post retracted part of its statement that resulted in Rolling Stone's semi-apology (which was not a total retraction of the story itself). So what are we left with? Washington Post keeps changing its so called facts but not alerting readers so people are printing out the pages, highlighting the parts in yellow then putting them up on twitter with the changes. For example, the Post retracted the statement that Jackie's attacker denied ever having met her in person. People are wondering if Jackie has recently been threatened. Other possibilities are that Rolling Stone just got things wrong, or that Jackie is too traumatized to remember all the details, or that Drew lied to her in the first place about being Phi Psi. Who knows at this point. Kids I know at UVA do believe she was raped and girls I know at UVA all know to avoid Phi Psi or at least not drink the punch but as for the specific details of the Rolling Stone story, that's still up in the air. I wouldn't put too much stock in anything Phi Psi or the Post or Rolling Stone says right now. Let the cops figure it out.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: it was all bullshit from day one ()
Date: December 06, 2014 12:25PM

Dumfuqs

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: responsible reporting ()
Date: December 06, 2014 12:47PM

A responsible reporter tries to get both sides of a story. Do not believe what you read or hear from the media. They are out to make money. It is the rare small town paper that can be believed.
And its possible that this girl blamed the frat so she could sue the national chapter. Who knows. Rape does happen. But girls lying about rape happens too. Its all fucked.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: wroooong ()
Date: December 06, 2014 12:49PM

Fox News Wrote:
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> imbiker Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Kind of like Duke LAX "scandle"? If it was
> > possible, then its probably true--the left's
> brain
> > says so!
>
>
> The Duke incident involved a sports team while the
> UVA incident involved a fraternity. Duke is in
> tobacco row while UVA is in Virginia wine country.
> There are no similarities to draw comparisons
> upon.


Wrong. The similarity is the bullshit story

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Anonyy ()
Date: December 06, 2014 01:51PM

http://kozlen.com/OLD%20SITES/PKP/comp

Words under category "lives: in house" -- armpit, 3-man, 1-man, president's room, Icebox, fireplace, dungeon, red crush velvet, green room.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Reporter rapes Jackie again ()
Date: December 06, 2014 02:13PM

Jizzabel Wrote:
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> You're victim blaming. Even if this rape did not occur other rapes have occurred so we shall discuss those.
>
>Rape Culture!!!!!

You realize that the "rape culture" now goes beyond the physical act...

Sabrina Rubin Erdely "raped" "Jackie" again. She forced her story into her agenda. Erdely had been searching campuses to fit her "pre-existing narrative" for awhile: http://online.wsj.com/articles/like-a-rolling-stone-1417823962. "Jackie" has lost credibility that she might not ever gain back. The cause, although immensely deserving, has suffered a black-eye by a backhanded and irresponsible attempt to raise awareness.

Erderly needs to be publicly chastised and distanced by those people who are trying to bring meaningful and rightful change to the issue/s!!

RS is a joke for failing not performing any due diligence before printing such finger pointing statements. I hope Pivik and all others will be able to sue for liable!

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 06, 2014 02:16PM

Libtards

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Bill Clinton ()
Date: December 06, 2014 02:18PM

are as bad as you a Foxtard



Fox News Wrote:
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> Libtards

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: SPEAR CHUKR PHIL ()
Date: December 06, 2014 03:06PM

Ok folks now let's get this straight once and for all, Rolling Stone Magazine is not let me repeat is not a news organization never has never will this is NOT the first time they have published a FICTION of a story hell it's not even a good story? Stop following,buying, and supporting such lying scandoulous trash they will soon fall by the way side like all other trash.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 06, 2014 03:06PM

Bill Clinton Wrote:
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> are as bad as you a Foxtard
>
>
>
> Fox News Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Libtards

Libtards dont shower on a regular basis

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: No more fox ()
Date: December 06, 2014 04:27PM


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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 06, 2014 05:08PM

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 06, 2014 05:09PM

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/06/2014 05:10PM by Fox News.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: December 06, 2014 05:15PM

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Not Fox ()
Date: December 06, 2014 05:26PM


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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Eric Holdon ()
Date: December 06, 2014 06:10PM

What was the writer's name? She should be charged with raping UVA.

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Re: Rolling Stone Rapes UVA fraternity
Posted by: Fat Albert ()
Date: December 06, 2014 09:29PM

Hands down...check your sources before you publish slanderous rape articles

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: RS backtracks ()
Date: December 08, 2014 07:46AM

RS has backtracked from its backtrack. They deleted the statement "our trust in her was misplaced" but didn't note it. People caught it in screen caps and posted it all over twitter. RS is shit for throwing Jackie under the bus when it's their reporter who screwed up.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: LetsRock ()
Date: December 08, 2014 07:54AM

Jizzabel Wrote:
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> You're victim blaming. Even if this rape did not
> occur other rapes have occurred so we shall
> discuss those.
>
> Rape Culture!!!!!


Getting drunk at a fraternity party that you freely walked into and then waking up in the morning and having to make that "walk of shame" out of house does not give you license to cry "rape" later to recover your dignity. You are a "hose bag" and everyone now knows it.

When I was in school, our house had a "fat chick" door in the back that allowed the girls to sneak out in the morning.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/08/2014 07:56AM by LetsRock.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: who? ()
Date: December 08, 2014 07:58AM

Who gives a shit? This shit happens all the time. Drunk chick fucks a frat guy, sobers up and claims rape. Typical lib turd kid.

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: Media Watcher ()
Date: December 08, 2014 08:25AM

Leftwing media propagandist gets caught in yet another blatantly false story, and libtards response, predictably, is to cry "Fox News! Wah! Wah! Fox News! Wah!"

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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA fraternity
Posted by: olduva ()
Date: December 10, 2014 11:16PM

how do you know this?

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