Phi Kappa Psi to 'pursue all available legal action' against Rolling Stone

[Valin]

CNN:

Brian Stelter

April 6, 2015

 

The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia said Monday that it is moving forward with a possible lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine in the wake of the now-retracted "Rape on Campus" article.

 

"After 130 days of living under a cloud of suspicion as a result of reckless reporting by Rolling Stone magazine, today the Virginia Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi announced plans to pursue all available legal action against the magazine," the fraternity said in a statement.

 

The fraternity hasn't made a formal decision yet on when to file a suit, a spokesman said.

 

The announcement came one day after the magazine published a damning external review of the editorial processes that resulted in the article's publication.

 

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[WestVirginiaRebel]

Take 'em to the cleaners...

[Valin]

As We Suspected All Along!

 

Rolling Stone's Rape Article Failed Because It Used Rightwing Tactics to Make a Leftist Point
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

April 6 2015

 

If you type in the original page for Rolling Stone’s December 2014 story “A Rape on Campus: The Struggle for Justice at UVA,” you’ll be redirected to "What Went Wrong?,” a report about the article published Sunday by the Columbia Journalism Review. Rolling Stone officially retracted its blockbuster story, which had garnered more than 2.7 million views. The retraction comes on the heels of the Charlottesville Police Department’s announcement that there was not enough evidence to pursue an investigation of the story’s titular rape, which now appears to have been something between a delusion and a hoax.

 

What did go wrong? A whole host of things, most of them probably more interesting to journalists than readers. There were dazzling editorial oversights, like the decision not to contact the three friends allegedly present on the night of the assault, and mundane human error, like the assumption that everyone who had heard Jackie’s story had been told the same tale. Still, the mother of all these blunders seems to have predated the article’s eventual litany of technical failures. Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the investigative journalist and true-crime writer who penned the essay, set out with an answer in search of a question, a conclusion about systematic indifference to rape which she needed the right story to backfill. If she had written a fictional account of a rape that met all her article’s needs, I can’t imagine it would have been too different than the horrifying one that issued from Jackie, which should have set off alarm bells then.

 

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Rule#1 The Right Is Always Wrong

Rule#2 In The (very highly unlikely) Event The Right Is Correct....See Rule #1.

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@Valin, @WestVirginiaRebel

So... when you are Right you are wrong, when you are Left you are right, and when you are Left and wrong you are Right?

[Valin]

@Valin, @WestVirginiaRebel

So... when you are Right you are wrong, when you are Left you are right, and when you are Left and wrong you are Right?

 

Got it in one!

[Valin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMcecEXH5UE

[SrWoodchuck]

Random Thoughts:

 

Like earing placement for straight men...left is right & right is wrong.

 

This isn't ambush journalism. Journalism isn't even close. No journalism was practiced here....at all.

 

This was Progressive Fantasy Preventative Blame-Storming + Fading Red-Rag-Revenue Enhancement.

 

Somewhere close....a rape probably did happen....and this crap makes it harder to prosecute.

 

After the Charlottesville Police Department concluded it's investigation; any injury that was caused was not just negligible....but nonexistent. As evidenced by the Rolling Boner deciding that no one needed a consequence for their stupidity & cupidity. Conservatives as a segment of society....men as a class....and fraternities as a singular example do not count....because they're still guilty of something...it just hasn't been thought up yet...for an air-tight frame.

[Valin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRUk872NI3M

[Valin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VNY4KZg95A

 

Brit Hume is not a happy camper.