When asked to clarify, he said that he was not trying to blame Jackie, “but obviously there is something here that is untruthful, and something sits at her doorstep.” He described her as “a really expert fabulist storyteller” who managed to manipulate the magazine’s journalism process. The problems with the article started with its source, Mr. Wenner, quoted in the New York Times today, is blaming the victim. Sabrina Rubin Erdely, who wrote the article, will continue to write for the magazine. Will Dana and Sean Woods, who edited the story, tried to resign in December, but were refused.

No one at the magazine, a baby-boomer favorite, will be dismissed for journalistic malpractice, even though Wenner loves to fire people for seemingly innocuous transgressions. Missing from Columbia's intense vivisection of the article, however, was a sense of responsibility: Whose fault was this crime against journalism, exactly? According to Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner, no one's, really. Their conclusion? Rolling Stone fucked up a lot. With an odd sense of fanfare, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism last night produced a 13,000-word report on Rolling Stone's profoundly flawed account of a gang rape at the University of Virginia, 'A Rape on Campus,' that was published last November.

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