The details the fraternity refutes seem minimal in the grand scheme of the story (and they say the story came out in 2012, not 2014). Her friends and rape activists on campus strongly supported Jackie's account.Īccording to a more in-depth article on the Washington Post, Rolling Stone's "Note" could be an attempt to preempt a statement from the University of Virginia's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, where the gang rape allegedly took place, which was issued a few hours later. In the months Erdely spent reporting the story, Jackie neither said nor did anything that made Erdely, or Rolling Stone's editors and fact-checkers, question Jackie's credibility. The "Note" states:īecause of the sensitive nature of Jackie's story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her. Other reporters have blamed any inaccuracies on Rolling Stone and Erdely for not trying to interview Jackie's alleged rapists for the other side of the story. It doesn't say that she lied to reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely, only that there are discrepancies, which could mean that Jackie didn't remember things accurately or left out parts of the story she didn't see as relevant, or something else entirely. Rolling Stone's new statement, titled "A Note to Our Readers," blames holes in the story on Jackie, but is extremely vague about what parts of the story are inaccurate. *The alleged assault was actually in September 2012. Through our extensive reporting and fact-checking, we found Jackie to be entirely credible and courageous and we are proud to have given her disturbing story the attention it deserves. The indifference with which her complaint was met was, we discovered, sadly consistent with the experience of many other UVA women who have tried to report such assaults. The story we published was one woman's account of a sexual assault at a UVA fraternity in October 2012* - and the subsequent ordeal she experienced at the hands of University administrators in her attempts to work her way through the trauma of that evening. The statement appears to go back on a different PR statement the magazine issued earlier this week, which said: Today, Rolling Stone issued a statement saying that "there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced." The recent powerful Rolling Stone story, " A Rape on Campus," which details the alleged campus gang rape of a University of Virginia student named Jackie and the university's failure to respond to the rape, has come under criticism this week for supposed holes in the story's reporting.
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