FOX has had several discredited stories—they've never publicly apologized for them. Remember the video of the DC anti Union protests that were actually filmed in SACRAMENTO?
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No. She should have walked away from the story, gotten a better source, or buried Jackie's account. Jackie was a master manipulator was Erdeley knew what she was dealing with. Her source disappeared. She promised things she didn't deliver. Dump her. Get a different source or story altogether. That's what journalists…
Except that SKEPTICISM is the critical element of journalism. Journalists are trained to question everything—including studies, sources, and even —ESPECIALLY— other published reports. It's why fact checkers are trained NOT TO ACCEPT other magazine articles or newspaper stories as sources.
The report says as much, and suggests that the two male editors were reluctant to call into question a female rape victim’s story. Male writers and story subjects don't get away with this; Matt Tabbai will tell you RS fact-checking is brutal.
Fact checkers are entry level. They have no power or say, and if you question a writer or editor too much, or too often, the editor or writer will come to the department manager and tell them to get rid of you. The journalist is responsible for getting the facts, jesus Christ. Some magazines don't even have…
Huh? Is this satire?
She's not apologizing for defending her. She's apologizing for slamming those who questioned the veracity of the story and keeping other critical comments about it in the grays, if only to bring them into the black to dismiss them.
Guess what? Journalists take a lot of shit from people. It's part of the job.
UVA can't sue.
Her version of things is quite different from Woods, though. And she's gotten away with this before.
LOL if anything Erdeley is going to throw the magazine with the deep pockets under the bus by saying ultimately it was RS who published it and RS who had the resources to check it—including an ENTIRE DEPARTMENT.
I can't EVEN believe Wenner is saying Erdeley will continue to write for the magazine, that no one will be fired, and that Erdeley herself will ever think she can be taken seriously as a journalist again. This is basic basic shit.
well, Ruth Shalit is writing for Elle, and was a proven plagiarist, so...
Erdeley has had this issue before, actually, on her story about an officer who was raped (the facts don't check out procedurely) and the story that sent the Catholic priest to prison.
One of those rape apologists was Hanna Rosin. Another was Judith Shuleviz.
You haven't been following this story at all, have you? She catfished her friends. She made the guy up. She lied about how her friends reacted to it. She specifically says in the story "rape victims remember that exact night" and that the victims often tell each other the nights, and on her "night" (when her life…
She made the guy up. She named him "Haven Monahan".
All babies are cute.