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Watch: Jon Stewart on Rolling Stone

At this point everyone and their mother have weighed in on the now infamous Rolling Stone story on rape at UVA. But Jon Stewart has a commentary on the whole debacle that’s so on point, everyone but Rolling Stone is giving it five stars.

At this point everyone and their mother have weighed in on the now infamous Rolling Stone story on rape at UVA. But Jon Stewart has a commentary on the whole debacle that’s so on point, ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

In wake of damning review of UVA rape article, Rolling Stone is still blaming Jackie

The Columbia Journalism School has published their report on what went wrong in Rolling Stone‘s article on rape at UVA last year.

By Chloe Angyal • 9 years ago

Rape, Rolling Stone, and the radical notion that women are trustworthy

Last week, Rolling Stone distanced themselves from the tale of a horrifying gang rape at the heart of their story about the culture of sexual violence at the University of Virginia, after concerns arose about “discrepancies” in the account of the survivor, Jackie. Now the Washington Post is re-investigating those discrepancies, uncovering major mistakes in Rolling Stone‘s reporting.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

“We live in a country full of racism, but no racists; rape, but no rapists.”

In the midst of the continued fallout from the Rolling Stone mess and the ongoing protests against racist police violence, Kate Harding draws the parallels between the victim-blaming tendencies that runs through the conversations on both gendered violence and racist violence.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

#IStandWithJackie: “Something terrible happened to Jackie.”

Emily Clark was a freshman year roommate of Jackie, the rape survivor thrown under the bus –and straight to the misogynist trolls — by Rolling Stone. In an op-ed in UVA’s Cavalier Daily the other day, she shared her perspective on the aftermath of the assault and stood by her friend.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

On Rolling Stone, lessons from fact-checking, and the limits of journalism

It was as both a feminist and former fact-checker that I watched with rage on Friday as Rolling Stone distanced themselves from the account of a gang rape at UVA they published last month, covering for their own journalistic missteps by throwing Jackie, the rape survivor at the center of the piece, under the bus. And the rage is only growing as many of the journalists now rushing to condemn Rolling Stone are starting to spin a tale of how a “Believe the Victims” mentality got in the way of good journalism in this case.

It was as both a feminist and former fact-checker that I watched with rage on Friday as Rolling Stone distanced themselves from the account of a gang rape at UVA they published last month, ...