While some held her by force, others violated. That was how Jackie a freshman at the University of Virginia, described in detail how he was ambushed by seven major she students in a dark room for a fraternity party.
After being published article, the house of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity was vandalized and closed.
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That was the story published in November 2014 the American magazine Rolling Stone, titled” A rape on campus “(A rape on campus, in English), written by journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely, which described the alleged attack of 2012 and a series of events subsequent impunity.
But now it has been shown that the story is false.
At least they admitted the magazine on Sunday when he officially Article retracted after the outcome of the investigation of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (CJS, for its acronym in English) in which the errors and gaps in the publication are analyzed.
The report, entitled “An avoidable failure”, was commissioned by the magazine Columbia, after the veracity of outside Article widely questioned, especially by the Washington Post, weeks after he published an article suggesting that the rape never happened.
Requests magazine
This research adds to the conclusions presented by the police Charlottesville, Virginia in late March that held that there was no basis that would support the version that the magazine published on the violation of Jackie.
The CJS emphasized that the culprit of the episode is not the source and false account but bad journalistic practice of Rolling Stone.
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At the time of publication, the article was one of the most read in the history of the magazine and viralizó sparking a heated national debate on the sensitive issue and conjectural violations on college campuses.
The actions of universities in cases of sexual abuse were the focus of discussion and reputation of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and its members was terribly affected, while some received threats and many of them lost the semester.
On Monday, after he was presented the report at a press conference, several of the affected announced they will sue the magazine.
“Rolling Stone falsely accused some students of the University of Virginia heinous criminal acts, and others falsely indifferent to the suffering of his classmate,” said Teresa Sullivan, president UVA, in a statement.
What says the report
The CJS presented the report at a conference Monday in New York. It concludes that Rolling Stone failed to use the “basic journalistic practices, even in routine” by not attempting to verify the details that Jackie gave Erdely for your article, or even find more than one source.
The reputation of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity was strongly affected by the article.
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” Failure includes newsgathering, editing, editorial supervision and verification of the facts, “says the report, adding that there was” systemic failures “magazine.
If you have followed the basic steps of newsgathering, the report said of Columbia, “Rolling Stone probably would have avoided these problems.”
In addition, CJS said that article undermines the efforts to stop sexual violence, since “spread the idea that many women invent accusations of rape.”
In the press conference, Steven Coll, dean of the CJS and one of the three authors of the report, said Rolling Stone hid behind the sensitivity that woke them the story of Jackie for their failures justify their reporting.
“We disagree with any suggestion that this is the fault of Jackie” said Coll.
Meanwhile Will Dana, editor of Rolling Stone, described the report as a “painful reading,” said the magazine is engaging with several of the recommendations made, but said no one will be fired for his role in history.
also apologized to all concerned “including members of the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi, UVA administrators and students.”
The journalist Sabrina Erdely also apologized and his article of 9000 words on the website was replaced by the report 12,000.
Charlottesville police chief said on March 23 that there is evidence that the gang rape occurred.
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Columbia argues that Jackie refused to answer questions from investigators for the report and that his lawyer said he preferred “remain silent at this time”.
Legal action against Rolling Stone
On Monday the governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, said in a statement that the whole episode is a “total failure of responsibility in journalism.”
“This false version has been an unnecessary and dangerous distraction from the real efforts to combat sexual violence on college campuses.”
And said his government “will not allow this shameful episode stop the momentum built with administrators, police, students and advocates to keep our schools safe.”
Meanwhile, fraternity, discredited by history has announced it will take legal action against Rolling Stone for his “defamatory and reckless” attitude.
Phi Kappa Psi He said in a statement Monday, the article, which was seen by millions of people-more than 2.7 million, according to Columbia University- led to a number of its members to withdraw into ostracism because its based off vandalized.
The fraternity was closed after being vandalized.
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The Columbia report endorses the statement by the fraternity.
According to the CJS, the bad practice of Rolling Stone had negative consequences for college.
“Our reputation has been tarnished completely,” said Stephen Scipione, president of Phi Kappa Psi, researchers from the CJS.
“was injured a full semester of our lives, particularly mine. We were put in the worst possible position on our community and our classmates.”
While Rolling Stone was the one who requested the investigation of a respected and independent entity and apologized to those affected, the fact that the episode has not generated any dismissal sparked strong criticism within the US media, who consider the event leaves more than journalistic ethics lessons.
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