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Showing Original Post only (View all)Author of botched Rolling Stone rape article expected to apologize [View all]
Source: CNN
Her tweet from late November reads likes it's in suspended animation, written in the calm before the storm.
"The Washington Post wrote an article about me, and how my UVA article came to be," she tweeted, adding a link to the profile.
Over the next several days, Sabrina Rubin Erdely would be thrust into professional turmoil as her story for Rolling Stone about a bombshell rape allegation at a fraternity house quickly fell apart.
Erdely, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, has been silent since the magazine apologized in December for significant failures in her reporting.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/05/media/sabrina-rubin-erdely-rolling-stone-virginia/
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Author of botched Rolling Stone rape article expected to apologize [View all]
shebolleth
Apr 2015
OP
I have no doubt that rape happened. The fact that the reporting was inadequate
dolphinsandtuna
Apr 2015
#3
They couldn't charge her even if they wanted to (not that they would have wanted to).
LisaL
Apr 2015
#43
What makes you think that RS didn't dig deeper attempting to find out if the story was true?
GGJohn
Apr 2015
#25
Blaming the victim is freaking insensitive and doesn't belong in a progressive space ever. nt
alp227
Apr 2015
#13
The problem I have is with people who use "disagreement" as an excuse to promote bigotry.
alp227
Apr 2015
#38
Maybe she can hire Mike Nifong as her attorney, to help her draft the apology
bluestateguy
Apr 2015
#7