The Rolling Stone Mess
By - To reiterate what Rob said when the story first broke, this was horrible journalistic malpractice by Rolling Stone, and the initial attempts to blame the accuser just compounded the mistakes.
- The context of sexual assault makes the horrible journalistic botch even worse.
- While the it was grossly irresponsible of Rolling Stone to start the piece with specific allegations it apparently made almost no effort to corroborate, it’s also worth noting at this point that we don’t know about whether or not “Jackie” was sexually assaulted. It has not been proven to be a complete hoax.
- Charles C. Johnson is a terrible, terrible, terrible person.
- As a demonstration of how to cover sexual assault on campus properly, make sure to carefully follow the work of BuzzFeed’s Katie J.M. Baker.