honest, this is still one of my favourite things. She just always looks on-point.

No doubt sister. And that lemony - buttery hat thing - wow! Only the Queen could get away with that look.

I was standing up, with the lady propped up on so I was supporting her full bodyweight (I'm 5'8", 180 lbs, so even though she was 125-130 it was still a good amount of weight that was going to come crashing down if I fell), and my right foot moved eeeeeeeever so slightly off the non-slip mat I have in my tub. Leg went…

They really need to sign up Rick Santorum as a celebrity spokesperson

Olestra. Never forget.

Borders was a great bookstore that was run into the fucking ground by management who wouldn't know what a book was if it bit them in the ass. The final CEO ran grocery stores and thought you could sell books the same way you sell cans of soup. Morons.

He(?) wasn't white only during the ordeal. It's a curse I tell you!

Methinks "Stonewalling" is a bit of an exaggeration here, no? It's not on UVA to help the Rolling Stone reporter that is doing a hatchet piece on their university. It's on her to do her job.

Schools should absolutely not give out student info to news organizations. That goes for alleged victims, alleged criminals, and alleged witnesses. That's a gross violation of the privacy rights of students. It would be a massive betrayal of trust and reflect poorly on the school if they just offered up student info…

No that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that institutions like schools, governments, companies, etc. are interested in protecting their image and they will lie or prevent access. It's the journalist's job to investigate further and not to report something like "sorry couldn't really get info from UVa," or…

Nobody failed Jackie; Jackie is not a victim of anything but her own lies. She created a fake boyfriend to make another guy jealous and then lied about being raped by the fake boyfriend. If you still believe Jackie was raped then you have either not been keeping up with the latest details of this story or you're as…

The notes above don't show the school saying any assaults never happened. They warn the writer and fact-checker that the narratives are incorrect or that the facts are mischaracterized. That can mean a lot of things, including but exclusively that the assault(s) didn't happen. It could also mean they happened very…

Oh yeah definitely. I mean, everyone. Companies, nonprofits, schools, Beyonce. Everyone has an interest in protecting their image and controlling their message and that is how the world works. It's the media's job to look at that critically and to dig further when they are stonewalled or told something like, "nobody…

Corporations as well. I've done crisis communications, and I wouldn't let a CEO talk to a reporter about something critical to the business without a lawyer and a PR specialist in the same room. That's not cagey — it would be communications malfeasance otherwise.

Oh yeah, the bit where she sent a rape victim an email like, "yeah, sorry, your friend's story was better."

I'll vouch! McG is my old boss and a top-notch dude. He even had the grace to accept ribbing from me, two levels below him on the org chart, when SNL revealed that MacGruber's name was "MacGruber MacGyver" and I used that fact to make fun of him.

I'm not excusing nontransparent institutions who put up these barriers like UVa did (so basically all of them) but it's not "failures on both sides." This is par for the course with universities, government agencies, etc.

She had a woman with a (seemingly) story she could actually corroborate but went for the splashy headline grabber that she couldn't get any third person data on. Just awful, awful journalism

It seems that UVA dealt with RS appropriately.

I don't really see what the problem is here. If I were raped I certainly wouldn't want the university discussing my case with anyone else and most certainly not a reporter from a major publication but Jezebel keeps mentioning the Universities refusal to discuss Jackies' case as though it is some kind of failure on…